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At  Erindale  College  of  the  University  of  Toronto 

Mississauga  Rd.,  Mississauga,  Ontario 

Founded  in  1974 

Circulation  7,000 

Vol.  4  No.  19  March  6,  1978 


Ham's 
No 

Turkey 


Erindale  Dean  Desmond  Mor- 
ton's New  New  Program  is  one 
step  towards  redefining  the  pur- 
pose of  university,  according  to  U 
of  T  President-Designate  James 
Ham.  He  spoke  to  Erindale  staff 
and  students  in  the  Council 
Chamber  last  Thursday. 

"I  believe  that  something  like 
the  New  New  Program  is  the 
beginning  of  a  searching-out  that  is 
absolutely  necessary  for  institu- 
tions of  higher  learning,"  he  said. 
"In  our  concern  for  growth,  we've 
stopped  asking  what  university  is 
for,  what  it's  all  about." 

Most  of  what  university  is  about, 
according  to  Ham,  is  the  Humani- 
ties. 

"The  Globe  and  Mail  jumped  on 
me  for  saying  that  university  is  not 
for  the  study  of  a  vocation,  but  I'm 
going  to  be  completely  frank:  you 
could  lose  the  professional  faul- 
ties  and  still  have  a  university,  but 
if  you  lose  the  Faculty  of  Arts  and 
Science  —  particularly  the 
Humanities  —  you  would  no  longer 
have  a  university." 

An  education  in  the  Humanities 
is  not  inconsistent  with  vocational 
training,  Ham  stressed.  "A  person 
who  is  trained  in  the  Humanities  is 
not  particularly  job-oriented,  yet 
who  is  better  qualified  to  go  out 
into  a  troubled  society  and  offer 
solutions.  Unless  we  in  the  univer- 
sities turn  our  minds  in  that 
direction  we  will  lose  the  historic 
foundation  of  the  university." 

Ham  said  that  institutions  of 
higher  learning  in  general  have 
gone  through  a  period  of  massive 
growth,  supported  by  post-war 
technological  and  intellectual 
achievements,  in  which  higher 
education  came  to  be  regarded  as  a 


panacea  for  our  society. 

Accompanying  this  growth.  Ham 
said,  was  a  democratisation  of  the 
university's  structure.  "We  got 
things  like  the  New  Program,  for 
example... an  expression  on  behalf 
of  students  and  staff  that  we  should 
have  freedom  of  choice,"  he  said. 
The  development  of  the  New  New 
Program  indicates  that  we  are 
going  through  a  reaction  against 
such  freedom,  he  added. 

The  program  is  valuable,  he 
said,  because  the  priorities  of  our 
society  have  changed  dramati- 
cally. "The  reality  today  is  that  in 
the  face  of  a  faltering  economy, 
higher  education  has  fallen  very 
low  on  the  priorities  of  provincial 
and  federal  governments." 

The  program  should  also  help  to 
create  a  sense  of  class  identity  and 
the  opportunity  for  creating  class 
relationships  which  might  not 
otherwise  exists,  he  said. 

According  to  Ham,  the  size  of  the 
University  of  Toronto  makes  it 
potentially  unmanageable,  but  he 
remains  optimistic.  "I  don't  like 
the  image  of  this  university  as  a 
huge  structure,  but  rather  as  a 
complex  one,  in  the  molecular 
sense;  the  molecule  of  the  univer- 
sity has  grown  more  complex 
through  the  addition  of  Scar- 
borough and  Erindale,"  he  said. 
He  added  that  the  collection  of 
talent  at  the  U  of  T  is  unique,  and  is 
in  fact  unmatched  in  this  country. 

Ham  later  conceded,  however, 
that  the  U  of  T  cannot  afford  to 
ignore  the  problem  of  size.  "The 
idea  that  the  U  of  T  can  survive  as 
a  first-class  institution  by  main- 
taining a  monolithic  structure  is 
plainly  wrong." 


U  of  T  President-Designate  Ham  came  for  his  visit  to  the  Country  Qub  last  Thursday  and 
seemed  to  like  it.  (Photo  by  Marty  Power) 


News 

Views 

Sports 

Shorts 

Shows 

Fahrenheit  451 : 

Uof  T 

Erindale 

Challis 

Cowboys, 

Look  what 

changes 

& 

swings 

Pile  Drivers, 

they're  doing 

its  song 

Scarborough 

at  the 

and  Rain. 

with  your 

again. 

fight 

RCMP 

money  now. 

it  out. 

again. 

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iL.y. 


Governing  Council  Candidate 


By  T.K.Sawyer 

"The  Governing  Council  is  the 
governing  body  which  comprises 
the  whole  university,  and  it  should 
have  at  least  one  representative 
from  the  two  suburban  campuses  if 
not  one  from  each." 

So  says  Frank  Pegolo,  a  third 
year  commerce  student  who  is  one 
of  two  Erindale  students  seeking  a 
position  as  a  full-time  under- 
graduate Arts  and  Science  rep  on 
the  Governing  Council.  The  elec- 
tion gets  under  way  this  week. 

Pegolo  boasts  experience  as  a 
member  of  the  Erindale  College 


Council  and  as  one  of  Erindale's 
representatives  on  the  Students 
Administrative  Council. 

Beyond  his  interest  in  securing 
suburban  representation  on  the 
Governing  Council,  Pegolo  sees 
rising  tution  fees,  and  course 
cutbacks  as  the  major  issues  of  the 
election.  He  notes  that  "four  or 
five"  courses  at  Innis  College  have 
already  been  cut,  and  questions 
whether  tuition  increases  and 
course  cutbacks  actually  accom- 
plish anything.  "The  consequences 
of  these  decisions  are  greater  than 


the  savings  to  the  university,"  he 
said. 

Pegolo  is  also  concerned  about 
the  effect  which  the  controversial 
Macdonald  Report  may  have  on 
the  Governing  Council.  Dr.  D. 
Macdonald  was  conunissioned  by 
last  year's  council  to  conduct  an 
external  review  of  the  university's 
full  governing  structure. 

"From  the  bits  and  pieces  that 
I've  read,  I  gather  it  would  be  bad 
for  students,"  he  said.  He  fears 
that  the  council  lost  its  active 
policy-making  role  and  become  a 
reactive  body. 


Erindale  the  Good  — 
Saving  Fuel  &  Money 


By  GaU  Stafford 

With  everyone  tightening  belts 
and  lowering  thermostats  these 
days,  Erindale  is  no  exception.  In 
an  interview  with  Physical  Plant 
Services  Manager,  Mr.  A.  Opalin- 
ski,  Erindale's  energy  problems 
were  brought  to  light. 

Since  1973,  because  of  a  combina- 
tion of  the  Arab  oil  embargo  which 
aroused  public  awareness  and 
budget  cutbacks,  (again,  again) 
Erindale  began  a  program  of 
energy  conservation.  In  the  past 
3%  years  gradual  changes  have 
taken  place  with  the  result  of  a 
considerable  savings.  Some  of  the 
cutbacks  have  been:  no  heat  or  air 
conditioning  in  the  Meeting  Place 
(in  effect  since  the  South  Building 
are  shut  completely  down  after 
each  day's  use,  and  the  removal  of 
from  15  to  50  per  cent  of  the  lighting 
around  the  coUege. 

This  latter  change  may  have 
only  attracted  your  attention 
recently  because  of  the  Library's 
prior  refusal  to  co-operate.  For 
three  years  they  had  refused  to 
turn  any  lights  off  and  gave  in  only 
after  two  consultants,  doing  a 
survey  in  1975  on  energy  conserva- 
tion for  Erindale  remarked  that 
perhaps  they  had  too  much  light. 
Hence  the  co-operation. 

Compared  with  the  1973-74  cost 
and  consumption  of  fuel,  these 
reductions  have  saved  47  per  cent 
of  fuel  consumption  and  19  per  cent 
hydro.  In  1973-74  we  used  884,000 
gallons  of  oil  and  although  we 
switched  to  gas  in  1975  we  still  will 
only  use  an  estimated  460,000 
gallons  this  year.  At  today's  prices 
this  would  have  cost  us  an 
additional  $145,000  on  top  of  what 
we  already  pay. 

Although  consumption  has  gone 
down,  the  cost  of  fuel  has  risen 
over  the  past  few  years.  For 
Erinddivi  it  has  risen  at  a  much 
slower  rate  than  if  there  had  been 
no  cutbacks.  According  to  Mr. 
Opalinski,  these  reductions  have 
resulted  in  a  two  or  three  year 
delay  of  the  higher  costs.  In 
1975-76,  the  cost  of  heating  was 
$212,000  and  in  1977-78  it  will  be 
$160,000  (further  savings  were 
offset  by  the  cost  of  some  further 
alterations). 

These  changes  have  not  come 
about  very  easily.  There  was  a 
need  estabUshed  way  back  in  1974 
to  hire  a  mechanical  engineer  to 
implement  the  needed  changes.  He 
would  have  been  paid  out  of  a 
portion  of  the  savings  gained.  He 
was  finally  hired  this  year.  He  is 
Mr.  J.H.  Wojcik  and  his  official 
title  is  Operations  and  Mainten- 
ance Engineer.  He  is  responsible 
for  implementing  the  suggestions 
outlined  in  the  mechanical  report 


on  energy  conservation  prepared 
by  two  consultants  in  1975  and  1978. 
These  changes  will  be  in  effect 
permanently  unless  someone  dis- 
covers a  cheap  effective  method  of 
taming  solar  energy  or  invents 
some  earth-shattering  new  fuel.  In 
fact  greater  savings  will  be  had  in 
the  near  future  with  further  imple- 
mentations of  energy  cutbacks. 
Savings  that  have  been  made  so  far 
have  been  done  with  no  changes  in 
equipment. 

One  of  the  proposed  changes  will 
be  to  replace  existing  florescent 
tube  lighting  with  ones  that  use 
lower  power  wattage.  This  way  aU 
light  fixtures  can  be  utilized 
instead  of  disconnecting  one-half  of 
the  fixtures. 

These  lights,  however  cost  twice 
as  much  as  existing  ones  and  it  is 
debatable  whether  it  is  worth  it. 
Also,  much  of  the  large  equipment 
bought  for  Erindale  was  designed 
for  future  use  when  Erindale  is 
much  bigger  than  it  now  is.  It  is  a 
waste  of  energy  to  have  these  in 
partial  use  and  thus  capacitors  are 
being  provided  to  cut  down  on 
energy  consumption. 

Lastly  and  most  interestingly, 
the  air  that  is  forced  into  the  rooms 
will  be  cut  down  upon.  Now,  don't 
panic  and  think  you  are  about  to  be 
suffocated,  the  air  being  pumped  in 
will  depend  on  the  number  of 
people  and  the  temperature  in  the 
room.  To  pump  the  same  amount 
of  air  for  one  person  as  for  eight  is 
a  sad  misuse  of  energy  for  the  air  is 
taken  from  the  outside  and  heated 
to  an  acceptable  temperature. 
Cutting  down  on  air  volume  (it  is 
called  variable  air  volume  as 
opposed  to  constant  air  volume) 
will  cut  down  on  heating  costs. 

The  upkeep  of  Erindale's  build- 
ings is  a  daily  battle  with  the 
elements  and  with  money.  Any 
changes  that  can  help  this  battle 
wiU  most  surely  be  welcomed.  The 
co-operation  of  staff  and  students 
is  one  of  the  most  important 
factors  in  the  success  of  these 
ventures.  An  Advisory  Committee 
on  Energy  Conservation  has  been 
set  up  with  representatives  from 
all  centres  and  interested  students. 
So  far  Rob  Mowat  (president  of 
ECSU)  is  the  only  student  to 
appear  interested.  Any  and  all 
others  can  talk  to  Mr.  Opalinski 
(Rm  3095).  The  role  of  the 
committee  will  be  to  explain 
changes  to  us,  what  to  do,  how  to  do 
it  and,  most  importantly,  to 
influence  the  public  in  following 
the  advise. 

For  the  most  part  these  changes 
have  been  accepted  quietly,  even 
apathetically.   Few  people   have 


even  noticed  the  reduction  in 
lighting  and  so  far  any  complaints 
have  been  kept  to  themselves.  Mr. 
Opalinski  stressed  that  if  anything 
(not  just  cutbacks)  annoys  the 
students,  they  should  tell  a 
maintenance  man,  a  supervisor  or 
if  no-one  else  is  around,  even 
Security  who  will  in  return  report 
back  to  himself.  Problems  with  the 
buildings  and  its  upkeep  are  of  a 
major  concern  with  Mr.  Opalinski, 
but  they  cannot  be  remedied 
without  first  being  indentified. 


Mobile  Caucus 
Visits  Erindale 

Monday,  March,  13 

Robert  Andras 

President  of  the  Treasury  Board 

Erindale  College 
Council  Chamber 
10:30  -  12  noon 


Blind  Duck 


Friday,  March  10      Noodles 
Saturday,  March  11  ^ 

Liverpool 


**/*l 


Coming  Soon 


[Wednesday^  March  15 

John  Allen  Cameron 

Thursday^  March  16 

Music  Club's  Amateur  Night 


March  6,  1978  -  MEDIUM  II  •  Poge  3 


Gloom  and  Doom 


Bus  fees  up  again 


ByBOGNAGAWASKI 

Bus  fees  for  both  the  Mississauga 
Transit  and  the  St.  George  shuttle 
service  will  rise  next  year,  it  was 
decided  at  a  recent  meeting  of  the 
College  Affairs  Committee.  Stu- 
dents will  be  expected  to  pay  35 
cents  a  ticket  for  Mississauga 
Transit  and  up  to  a  dollar  for  rush 
hour  shuttle  service. 

Recent  cutbacks  throughout  the 
university  are  part  of  the  reason 
for  the  fee  increases.  Robin  Ross, 
vice-principal  of  Administration  at 
Erindale,  told  Medium  II.  Cut- 
backs of  3%  per  cent  on  academic 
costs  and  five  per  cent  on 
administrative  costs  have  had  to 
be  implemented. 

To  cut  busing  costs  five  per  cent 
the  budget  will  have  to  be  reduced 
to  $66,500  the  cost  of  which   is 


evenly  split  between  the  university 
and  the  college. 

The  sub-committee  for  trans- 
portation and  parking  stated  in  its 
report  that  if  it  is  assumed  that 
cost  increases  for  1978-79  are  10  per 
cent  the  deficit  will  be  in  the  area 
of  $76,626.  Three  proposals  were, 
therefore,  presented  to  cut  costs  by 
the  necessary  $10,000. 

The  three  motions  calling  for 
elimination  of  the  summer  shuttle 
service,  the  increase  in  Missis- 
sauga Transit  fees  and  the 
increase  in  regular  shuttle  service 
fees  were  all  carried. 

The  latter  proposal,  that  St. 
George  bus  fees  be  raised  from  70 
cents  to  a  dollar  and  from  35  to  40 
cents  met  with  some  strong 
opposition.  John  Doherty,  SAC's 


External  Affairs  Commissioner, 
argued  that  such  an  increase  does 
not  take  into  consideration  the 

students  who  will  have  to  pay  for  it. 
Twenty  per  cent  of  the  students 
will  be  eliminated  from  grants,  he 
^tated  in  opposition  to  the  fee 
increases  and  the  OSAP  aUowance, 
he  felt,  would  not  take  these 
increases  into  account.  Additional- 
ly, Doherty  maintained  that  the 
university  had  an  obligation  to 
keep  communications  between  the 
campuses  open. 

The  point  was  raised  at  the 
meeting  that  the  shuttle  service 
was  for  academic  and  not  merely 
commuter  purposes.  Due  to  finan- 
cial considerations  this  therefore, 
initial  purpose  must  be  kept 
inmince. 


Journeying  Into  the  unknown,  fearless  explorers  board  an 
Erindale  shuttle  bus.  The  cost  of  this  voyage  of  the  intrepid  is 
going  up  yet  again. 


Ross  pointed  out  that  there 
already  was  an  Express  Bus 
service  from  Islington  subway  to 
the  college  during  rush  hours. 


Council  Okays  Parking  Fees  Increase 


ByDanMcKitterick 

On  February  27  the  Erindale 
College  Council  approved  the 
College  Affairs  Committee  recom- 
mendation to  raise  full-time  park- 
ing permits  for  1978-79  to  $48.  The 
decision  will  also  have  part-time 
permits  go  up  to  $24,  daily  rates  to 
$1  and  evening  permits  eliminated. 

The  council  was  told  that  rates 
should  be  increased  to  cover 
"rising  operation  costs"  and  the 
decision  "to  set  aside  $50,000  per 
year  towards  the  eventual  con- 
struction of  a  parking  structure  on 
the  campus."  Several  council 
members  objected  to  the  second 
reason  and  it  passed  only  after 
much  heated  debate. 

Tom  Eliot,  chairman  of  the 
sub-committee  which  made  the 
original  increase  proposal,  said 
that  $6  of  the  full-time  increase 
would  go  towards  operating  costs 
and  $6  to  the  $50,000  per  year. 

This  brought  council  member 
Ms.  Poe  to  her  feet  stating  that  this 
was  a  case  of  "today's  students 
contributing  to  tomorrow"  and 
that  they  should  not  have  to  pay  $6 


for  the  parking  structure.  She  then 
introduced  a  motion  that  would 
have  the  rate  increase  reduced  "so 
as  not  to  provide  the  $50,000." 

Eliot  explained  that  his  break- 
down of  the  fee  increase  was  only 
an  estimate.  Actually,  only  the 
money  left  after  covering  operat- 
ing costs  would  go  into  the 
structure  fund.  Is  structure  neces- 
sary? 

John  Simpson,  chairman  of  the 
college  affairs  committee,  said 
that  the  deomgraphics  of  Missis- 
sauga were  "in  favor  of  increased 
enrolment  in  the  future.  Setting 
aside  the  money  now  for  the 
structure  would  be  an  attempt  "to 
get  their  foot  in  the  door"  against 
inflation  which  Simpson  said  is  a 
"case  of  being  wise  in  the 
present." 

Council  member  Werner  Klotz- 
beucher  disagreed,  saying  that 
Erindale's  enrolment  was  not 
increasing  and  therefore  there  was 
no  need  for  more  parking  spaces. 
He  concluded  that  there  was  no 
sense  in  setting  money  aside  for  a 
structure.   Poe   backed   Klotz- 


beucher  up,  saying  that  voting  for 
the  increase  would  be  like  giving 
money  to  "an  unnamed  charity." 
Ms.  Poe's  motion  to  take  $6  off 
the  rate  raise  was  then  voted  on 
and  narrowly  defeated  30-27. 

With  that  out  of  the  way  the  main 
point  of  whether  or  not  to  raise  the 
rates  was  voted  on  with  little 
discussion  since  most  areas  had 
been  covered  in  the  previous 
debate.  This  time  the  result  was 
niore  decisive  than  before  with 
Council  overwhelmingly  accepting 
the  College  Affairs  Committee's 
reconunendation. 

ECSU's  delegates  at  the  meeting 
voted  for  the  increase.  Afterwards 
Rob  Mowat  told  Medium  II  that  he 
is  totally  against  the  parking 
structure  and  feels  the  likelihood  of 


it  ever  being  built  is  "minimal." 
Mowat  said  he  voted  for  the 
increase  because  he  feels  it  is 
important  to  improve  (repair)  the 
parking  lots  and  since  rates  have 
been  "extremely  reasonable"  in 
the  past,  hoping  for  them  to  stay 
the  same  it  "doesn't  reflect 
reality." 

In  other  business  at  this  "special 
meeting"  Principal  Paul  Fox  put 
forth  a  motion  for  a  constitutional 
amendment.  He  proposed  that  the 
Academic  and  College  Affairs 
Committees  report  to  council 
through  the  executive  committee 
in  an  effort  to  "streamline" 
College  government.  After 
speeches  by  Desmond  Morton  and 
John  Simpson,  the  chairman  of  the 
two  affairs  committees,  the  motion 
was  defeated. 


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The  University  of  Toronto  Anti- 
Cutbacks  Coalition,  meeting  last 
Wednesday  at  the  SAC  offices 
decided  to  set  up  a  sub-committee 
to  see  what  can  be  done  about 
getting  non-academic  support  at 
the  university  for  the  March  16th 
Queens  Park  protest  against  cut- 
backs, according  to  coalition 
organizer  Paul  Campbell. 

He  said  the  meeting  was 
encouraging,  because  a  number  of 
people  turned  up  that  he  had  not 
seen  at  any  previous  meetings 
including  some  members  of  the 
SCIU  who  showed  an  interest  in 
supporting  the  March  16th  protest. 

The  SCIU  represents  service 
employees  of  the  university  who 
have  been  very  hard  hit  by  the 
present  cutback  policy. 

So  far  the  coalition  has  the 
support  of  the  Graduate  Student 
Union  (GSU),  the  Graduate  Assi- 
tants  Association  (GAA),  CUPE 
(Library  Workers  from  various 
campus  libraries)  and  the  Stu- 
dents' Administrative  Council 
(SAC). 

The  University  of  Toronto  Staff 
Association  (UTSA)  has  been 
attending  the  Coalitions  meetings, 
but  according  to  Campell,  "They 


won't  support  the  March  protest." 
What  they  want  is  to  have  the 
university  set  up  a  permanent 
cutback  committee  in  its  govern- 
ment structure  to  make  decisions 
on  where  cutbacks  should  be  made. 

However,  a  reliable  source  has 
told  Medium  II  that  UTSA  is  now 
indicating  that  they  propably 
support  the  demonstration  after 
aU. 

SAC  is  seeking  mass  student 
support  for  the  Queens  Park 
demonstration  by  having  a  special 
meeting  with  U  of  T  students  in  the 
Medical  Science  Auditorium  on 
March  6th  at  3  p.m. 

The  University  of  Toronto  Anti- 
Cutbacks  Coalition  is  part  of  a 
larger  Metro  Coalition  made  up  of 
groups  from  other  post-secondary 
institutions  that  are  all  partici- 
pating in  organizing  the  Queen's 
Park  demonstration.  Added  to 
their  support  was  that  of  member 
colleges  and  universities  of  the 
Ontario  Federation  of  Students 
(OFS),  who  voted  by  a  large 
majority  to  support  the  protest  at 
their  meeting  in  Ottawa  on  the 
February  26  and  27  weekend. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  Coalition 
is  this  Wednesday,  2  p.m.  at  the 
SAC  offices. 


The  unique  taste  of  Southern  Comfort,  enjoyed  for  over  125  years. 


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How  quickly  they  vacilliate.  The 
recent  report  calling  for  the  easing 
of  admission  standards  at  the 
University  of  Toronto  is  a  prime 
example  of  the  administration's 
readiness  to  completely  turn  face 
in  its  policy. 

For  the  past  two  years,  the 
University  has  been  bemoaning  the 
quality  of  education  in  Ontario. 
Student  literacy  in  universities 
today  is  substandard,  and  the  main 
thrust  of  administrative  planning 
has  been  geared  at  improving  the 
academic  calibre  of  post-secon- 
dary education. 

The  personal  campaign  of  Vice- 
Principal  Desmond  Morton  needs 
little  introudction  as  an  example  of 
this  attitude.  The  'New'  New  Pro- 
gram, in  presenting  a  'more 
structured  curriculum'  of  obliga- 
tory courses  from  various  discip- 
lines, is  intended  to  raise  the 
general  knowledge  of  students  at 
Erindale.  It  has  quickly  found 
fertile  ground  across  the  Univer- 
sity of  Toronto  as  the  simplest 
solution  to  an  extremely  complex 
problem.  It  has  also  had  the  very 
favorable  effect  of  place  the  blame 
on  the  students  and  not  on  the 
educators. 

But  suddenly  the  tables  have 
turned.  David  Neelands,  registrar 
of  Trinity  College  and  head  of  a 
six^nan  committee  assigned  to 
studying  full-time  enrolment,  has 


discovered  that  enrolment  at  the  U 
of  T  has  been  on  the  decline  since 
1972.  Last  year  alone,  enrolment 
dropped  almost  six  per  cent  over 
the  previous  year. 

The  reaction  to  these  statistics, 
at  least  in  the  Neelands  report,  has 
bordered  on  panic.  Decrease 
admission  standards,  it  recom- 
mends, and  send  out  more  offers  to 
Grade  13  graduates. 

The  consequences  of  such  a 
move  could  be  more  dangerous 
than  the  wildest  of  regimental 
programs.  By  drecreasing  admis- 
sion standards,  the  University  of 
Toronto  is  effectively  dropping  its 
performance  standards  by  the 
same  degree.  A  story  reporting  on 
the  committee's  suggestions  in  the 
Globe  and  Mall  last  Thursday  also 
points  out  that  the  attempts  to 
boost  the  enrolment  on  the  St. 
George  campus  will  infringe  on 
other  campuses'  ability  to  draw 
their  admission  quotas. 

If  the  performance  requirements 
for  Grade  13  graduates  is  dropped 
on  the  St.  George  campus  from  the 
75  per  cent  required  for  arts 
studies,  as  the  report  recommends, 
what  will  the  standards  be  set  at  on 
the  satellite  campuses?  At  present, 
the  Grade  13  minimum  average  for 
applicants  at  Erindale  is  set  at  60 
per  cent.  It  has  been  set  lower 
simply  so  it  can  attract  more 
students,  but  if  those  standards  are 


close  to  being  the  same  as  on  the 
downtown  campus,  the  loss  to  our 
enrolment  would  be  immediate. 

Couple  that  with  the  impending 
New  New  Program,  the  average 
student  will  find  the  attractions  on 
the  downtown  campus  too  much  to 
resist.  It's  a  far  cry  from  the  high- 
minded  designs  to  bring  the 
student  populace  up  to  the  apex  of 
articulacy. 

There  are  some  rather  practical 
reasons  for  the  turn-around;  any- 
one familiar  with  the  machinations 
of  the  administration  can  guess 
that  the  biggest  of  these  is  money. 
The  Ontario  Government's  grants 
to  universities  are  based  on  the 
number  of  students  enroled.  At 
present,  the  University  of  Toronto 
receives  $2,581  per  student  from 
the  Ontario  Ministry  of  Colleges 
and  Universities.  Next  year,  that 
figure  will  go  up  to  $2,715  a  head. 
Even  a  six  per  cent  drop  in 
enrolment  therefore  means  an 
appreciable  drop  in  the  amount  of 
money  the  University  of  Toronto 
will  be  able  to  glean  from  the 
government.  With  an  already 
harshly  restricted  budget,  the 
administration  is  prepared  to  pile 
students  three  deep  in  their  seats  to 
keep  faculty  members  on  staff.  As 
far  as  they  are  concerned,  it's 
damn  the  torpedos  and  full  speed 
ahead. 


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Thanks 

DEAR  MEDIUM  II: 

WE  (ECARA)  would  like  to 
thank  you  for  your  thought  pro- 
voking article  in  the  last  issue(Feb. 
27)  entitled  "Incidental  Fees  in  a 
NutsheU'. 

The  author,  or  authors,  who  are 
as  yet  unnamed,  brought  forth 
some  interesting  situations  and 
ideas  which  we  would  like  to 
comment  on. 

It  was  very  apparent  throughout 
the  article  that  the  expenditure  of 
compulsory  fees  was  of  particular 
importance.  ECARA  also  feels  that 
they  are  responsible  for  providing 
as  far  reaching  a  program  as 
possible  so  that  all  Erindale 
students,  faculty  and  staff  have  an 
opportunity  to  participate.  An 
indication  of  this  type  of  priority 
can  be  found  in  the  ECARA  budget. 
More  than  75  per  cent  of  the 
athletic  budget  is  spent  in  the  area 
of  intramurals,  instructions  and 
clubs.  Obviously  the  athletic  pro- 
gram is  directed  toward  providing 
unrestricted  participation. 

It  should  be  pointed  out  that  the 
incidental  fees  collected  by 
ECARA  only  make  up  60  per  cent 
of  the  operating  budget.  The  rest  of 
ECARA's  revenue  comes  from 
part-time,  staff  and  faculty  mem- 
berships, facility  rentals,  instruc- 
tion  fees,   community   member- 


ships in  the  summer,  alumni 
memberships  and  locker  sales. 

On  top  of  this,  the  university 
provides  all  the  services  such  as 
heat  and  light,  administration  and 
land  for  no  cost. 

A  $40,000  figure  was  mentioned 
in  the  article  as  an  amount  which 
ECARA  horded  over  the  last  two 
years  in  order  to  build  the  new 
tennis  courts  and  resurface  the  old 
ones.  This  figure  is  actually  around 
$27,000  and  was  saved  over  a 
period  of  nine  years,  not  two. 
Without  this  initial  capital  the 
courts  could  not  have  bieen  built 
and  it  was  a  student  decision  to 
build  those  courts.  The  rest  of  the 
money  was  raised  from  summer 
program  revenues  which  are  not 
compulsory  fees. 

ECARA  is  also  attempting  to  set 
up  new  programs  which  can  lie 
fiiianced  without  student  money 
and  yet  be  made  available  for 
student  participation.  Erindale's 
new  fitness  lab  which  will  be 
completed  this  summer  is  being 
financed  by  Update  and  Wintario. 
The  outdoor  pool  is  to  be  financed 
by  summer  program  money  and 
possibly  a  Wintario  grant. 

The  saunas  were  paid  for  by  the 
residences,  a  fact  which  may  not 
have  been  clear. 

ECARA  helps  students  by  provi- 
ding over  50  part-time  jobs  each 
year  including  positions  as  team 
managers,  referees,  league  com- 


missioners and  drivers.  Archie's 
Den  also  hires  Erindale  students 
through  the  university. 

Any  suggestions  which  indiv- 
iduals or  groups  would  like  to  make 
to  improve  ECARA's  program  are 
most  welcome  and  all  will  receive 
serious  consideration. 

Medium  II  is  to  be  commended 
for  writing  such  a  well  intentioned 
article  and  it  is  hoped  that  this 
letter  can  in  some  way  clarify  the 
ECARA  program  and  its  priorities. 
Sincerely, 
ECARA. 

Non- 
Co-operative 

I  have  just  called  Dean  Andrews 
to  tell  him  that  this  year,  in 
contrast  to  past  years,  I  will  not 
cooperate  with  students'  surveys  of 
courses.  This  is  ironic  since  I  have 
been,  and  still  am,  of  the  persu- 
asion that  the  results  of  those  exer- 
cises can  provide  valuable  guid- 
ance to  students  in  choosing  their 
courses.  I  say  "can  provide" 
rather  than  "are  providing"  be- 
cause in  the  past  four  years  the 
results  of  these  surveys  have  not 
been  made  available  to  incoming 
students.  Without  reaching  their 
intended  readership,  the  surveys 
are  a  waste  of  time  and  money. 
Hence  my  decision. 

It  is  regrettable  that  ECSU  and 


previously  SAGE  can  find  neither 
the  time  nor  the  impulse  to  serve 
their  constituents  competently  in 
what  appears  to  be  a  very  impor- 
tant matter. 

Martiii  Moskovlts 
Chemistry. 

Objection! 

To  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Radio 
Varsity: 

Re :  Your  Letter  to  the  Editor 
of  February  27, 1978 

While  I  appreciate  your  com- 
ments and  concerns  about  your 
station.  Radio  Varsity,  and  CFRE- 
Radio  Erindale,  I  feel  I  may  have 
been  misrepresented  somewhat  in 
your  letter. 

By  stating  that  Radio  Varsity 
was  not  successful  I  meant  that  it 
was  not  successful  in  obtaining  the 
FM  licence  and  this  is,  of  course, 
the  aim  of  the  Varsity  directors  at 
that  time.  After  placing  approxi- 
mately $100,000  of  student  monies 
into  the  project,  one  must  wonder 
why  the  station  folded  altogether 
only  to  be  resurrected  this  year. 
While  such  a  large  sum  was  being 
poured  into  Radio  Varsity,  subur- 
ban campus  radio  stations  receiv- 
ed little  SAC  support.  My  argu- 
ment was  simply  that  CFRE  has 
proven  it  can  exist  and  provide 
students  with  adequate  program- 
ming and  be  satisfied  with  a  closed 
circuit  operation  at  the  same  time 


and  therefore  deserved  SAC  fund- 
ing. Since  Radio  Varsity  was  given 
a  chance  to  succeed  in  its 
endeavors,  should  not  CFRE  be 
given  the  same  opportunity? 

While  I  agree  that  past  perfor- 
mance might  in  no  way  relfect 
upon  present  staff  of  Radio 
Varsity,  SAC  must  evaluate  possi- 
bilities of  future  success.  SAC  has 
done  just  this  in  funding  CFRE.  It 
has  further  decided  to  test  out 
possibilities  with  a  new  Radio 
Varsity  by  allotting  minimum 
funding  as  an  experiment  this 
year.  Perhaps  Radio  Varsity's 
merit  will  be  reaffirmed.  CFRE 
wishes  you  the  best  in  your 
attempts.  One  must  realize  that 
CFRE  has  never  intended  to  opt  for 
an  FM  licence  hoping  to  improve 
programming  on  the  smaller  Erin- 
dale campus  to  serve  the  students 
of  Erindale.  With  the  SAC  funding, 
we  will  hopefully  be  able  to  do  so. 

While  I  think  that  your  idea  of 
cost-effectiveness  of  services  pro- 
vided by  a  station  serves  to 
evaluate  expenditures  in  radio 
often,  one  cannot  simply  view 
things  on  the  basis  of  some 
product-moment  analysis,  but 
rather  must  take  into  account  the 
history  of  the  station  and  the 
mistakes  made  in  the  past.  This 
helps  to  eradicate  such  mistakes  in 
the  future  ensuring  optimum  use  of 
student  funds. 

Continued  on  page  7 


March  6,  1978  •  MEDIUM  II  •  Pags  5 


Feed  back 

By  DAVID  KAZLOVSKIS 

Retiring  U  of  T  President  John  Evans 
may  be  running  for  a  seat  in  the  federal 
House  of  Commons  against  David  Crombie 
In  the  upcoming  election.  What  do  you 
think  his  chances  of  winning  would  be? 


Charles  Tan 

Yr.  II 

Major:  Pol.  Sci. 


"I  think  It  will  be  a 
close  race,  but  David 
Crombie  will  edge 
him  out." 


Happy  Trails  to  You 


Llm  Boon  Seng 

Yr.  1 

Major:  Commerce 

"There's  a  tough  fight 
shaping  up.  I  think 
that  Crombie's 
experience  will  give 
him  a  definite  advan- 
tage, but  I  hope 
Evans  will  win." 


Paul  Hendrick 

Yr.  3 

Major:  Pol.  Sci. 

"John  Evans  is  a  very 
competent  man.  He 
is  held  in  high  esteem 
among  the  Liberal 
Party  organization.  If 
he  was  in  nriy  riding 
he'd  get  my  vote." 


Michael  Lagopoulos 

Yr.  3 

Major:  Commerce 

"John  Evans  is  one 
of  the  smartest  men 
in  the  country,  he'll 
have  no  problem  win- 
ning. He's  a  real 
leader. 


Chan  Baboolal 

Yr.  4 

Major:  Electronics 

"Evans  is  a  shoe-in. 
The  Liberal  party  has 
its  eyes  on  him 
as  a  potential  cabinet 
minister." 


By  HEIDI  PUTZER 

Hie  position  of  Artist-in-Resi- 
dence  presently  held  by  John 
Loomis  will  be  phased  out  next 
year  due  to  budget  restraints.  Mr. 
Loomis,  a  superb  musician,  has 
held  the  post  for  the  last  three 
years  when  he  succeeded  well- 
known  artist  David  Blackwood.  In 
his  official  capacity  Mr.  Loomis 
oversees  the  music  program  on 
campus. 

Gordon  Fife  of  the  Erindale 
Music  Association  has  proposed 
Loomis  be  reinstated  and  sought 
ECSU  backing.  Fife  announced  the 
association  intends  to  form  a 
theatrical  group  to  produce  the 
musical,  "Godspell"  next  year.  He 
stated  the  project  would  take  at 
least  a  year  to  organize;  the  first 
step  would  involve  arranging  a 
band. 

Rob  Mowat,  ECSU  president, 
has  moved  that  ECSU  take  all  nec- 
essary steps  to  support  Fife  in  "his 
quest  for  Loomis'  reinstatement. 

So  far  a  compromise  has  been 
reached  whereby  Mr.  Loomis 
would  remain  in  his  artist's  cottage 
and  in  return  he  would  be  respon- 
sible for  the  Stage  Band.  Presently 
the  Music  100  instructors  on 
campus  are  not  qualified  to  lead 
the  Stage  Band. 

Brian  Maclnnis,  affiliated  with 


the  music  association,  stated  the 
reason  it  struck  the  bargain  was  to 
keep  the  music  organization  going 
in  lean  times.  He  suggested  that 
other  groi4>s  on  campus  might  be 
able  to  utilize  Mr.  Loomis'  ser- 
vices. 
Alternative  funding  may  be 


available  from  the  Canada  Coun- 
cil. The  Council  provides  full 
funding  for  artists  at  colleges  and 
universities  on  the  basis  of  one 
artist  per  year,  subject  to  yearly 
change. 

Mr.  Loomis  has  been  unavailable 
for  comment. 


Page  6  •  MEDIUM  II  -  March  6,  1978 


If  you  think  that's  a  lot,  just  price  the  imports! 


Rabbit.  Toyota.  Fiesta,  even  Civic. 
aren't  what  they  used  to  be.  They 
used  to  be  cheap.  No  more.  Now  they 
all  set  you  back  some  heavy  dough. 

But  maybe  you  think  they're  still 
worth  it  because  they've  still  got  it  up 
on  us  when  it  comes  to  standard 
equipment.  Here  comes  your  second 
shock. 

At  that  $394100  base  price, 
a  2-door  Pontiac  Acadian  comes 
complete  with  hatchback.  1.6  litre 
engine,  tour-speed,  reclining  buckets, 
AM  radio,  white-walls,  carpeting,  body 
side  moulding  and  much  more  as 


standard  equipment. 

But  then  again  there's  a  chance 
you're  still  into  that  "foreign  car 
mystique"  number  Well,  if  it  means 
that  much  to  you  to  drive,  say,  a  VW 
Rabbit,  go  ahead.  It's  your  bread. 
Blow  an  extra  eleven  hundred  and 
fifty-four  bucks.  What  else  are  you 
going  to  spend  it  on,  anyway^' 


■  Prices  are  based  on  Manufacturers'  Suggested 
Retail  Prices  and  specifications  for  2-door 
hatctibacks  equipped  with  standard  equipment 
obtained  from  readily  available  published  sources 
and  believed  to  be  in  effect  Feb.  15.  1978.  Standard 
equipment  may  vary  with  each  manufacturer. 
Dealers  may  sell  for  less. 


HATCH  BACKS  ^^=    - 

Pontiac  Acadian 
Honda  Civic 
Ford  Fiesta 

_$3941::=* 

^4095 
M385 

Toyota  Corolla 

M523 

natsun  R?in 
VW  Rahhit 

_J4625 
*5095 

■    Manufacturers'  suggested  retail  price  for  a 
2-door  Acadian  Hatchback  Coupe  with  standard 
equipment.  Federal  Tax  included  Provincial  or  local 
taxes  where  applicable,  freight  and  handling 
charges  are  extra  Dealers  may  sell  for  less. 


POMTIAC 

ACADIAN 

Nobody's  got  it  like  Pontiac's  got  it. 


Credit  Notes 


Fair  Dealing 

A  bit  of  controversy  seems  pending,  due  to  the  Erindale  College 
Libraries'  proposal  to  tape  CFRE  records  for  library  use. 

It  seems  that  students  often  make  requests  for  popular  music 
recordings  in  the  library.  Since  the  library  cannot  appropriate 
funds  for  such  an  expense,  CFRE  offered  to  donate  recordings  if 
the  library  agreed  to  tape  them. 

In  response  to  this  proposal,  H.  Smith,  Head  Librarian,  said  that 
ECSU  was  approached  for  money  to  buy  approximately  100  blank 
tapes.  These  tapes  would  be  used  to  record  CFRE  music 
recordings,  and  would  be  placed  in  the  library  for  student  use. 

However,  the  question  was  raised  at  a  recent  ECSU  meeting  of 
copyright  laws  regarding  the  library's  taping  of  these  records. 
Smith  said  that  this  was  a  matter  of  interpretation  whether  or  not 
the  copyright  laws  would  be  broken.  It's  a  question  of  what  is 
considered  fair  dealing. 


Death  of  a  Carnivai 
part  2 


The  death  of  ECSU's  Winter  Carnival  two  weeks  ago  may  not 
have  been  honorable,  but  it  won't  cost  the  Erindale  student  much. 

According  to  ECSU  President  Rob  Mowat,  the  only  promotional 
expenses  inciured  by  the  Student  Union  cover  the  costs  of  two 
full-page  ads  in  Medium  n.  Carling  O'Keefe  had  supplied  most  of 
the  promotional  material,  Mowat  said,  and  they  will  not  ask  to  be 
reimbursed. 

"It  was  part  of  the  company's  promotional  budget,  and  they  don't 
expect  reimbursement,"  he  said.  "In  Carling  O'Keefe's  case,  it 
was  probably  a  tax  write-off  in  the  first  place." 

Gord  Shantz,  ECSU  Vice-President,  told  Medium  11  that  there 
had  been  no  applicants  for  any  of  the  Carnival  events,  which 
included  cross-country  skiing,  wheelbarrow  races,  broomball, 
snow  golf,  ice  sculpting,  and  the  highly-touted  "world's  largest 
snowball"  contest. 

Mowat  blamed  the  Carnival's  failure  on  poor  advertising.  "ECSU 
really  could  have  done  more  in  the  area  of  promotion,"  he  said. 

In  the  past,  ECSU  has  gone  to  the  student  body  to  actively 
encourage  interest  in  the  annual  festivities.  The  organizers  of  eadi 
activity  would  set  up  a  table  in  front  of  the  South  Building  cafeteria 
to  draft  participants,  for  example. 

"ECSU  will  have  to  go  to  that  sort  of  thing  in  the  future  to  insure  a 
minimum  level  of  participation,"  Mowat  said. 


Smol(e  gets 
in  yer  eyes 


Busy  nights  at  the  Blind  Ehick  have  in  the  past  choked  even  the 
sturdiest  pub  patrons. 

They  may  not  do  so  much  longer. 

The  ECSU  Board  of  Directors  decided  at  a  meeting  last 
Wednesday  to  spend  a  maximum  of  ten  thousand  dollars  from 
Blind  Duck  accounts  for  the  purpose  of  ventilation. 

"We're  aiming  at  having  the  job  completed  before  the  end  of  our 
term,"  said  ECSU  Finance  Director  Chris  Shortt. 

Tenders  for  the  project  finally  went  out  this  year  after  research 
by  last  year's  administration,  and  ECSU  is  considering  proposals 
from  two  companies.  Neither  company  could  guarantee  that  their 
proposal  would  definitely  do  the  job,  Shortt  said. 

Shortt  has  since  been  talking  to  Physical  Plant  Services 
Superintendent  A.O.  Miller,  who  has  agreed  to  look  into  the 
problem. 

"Before  we  were  talking  about  as  cheap  a  system  as  we  could 
find,  but  if  we're  talking  about  ten  thousand  dollars  we  want  a 
system  that  will  work,"  he  said. 


Music  Weeic  Again 

Spring  will  be  ushered  in  one  week  early  at  Erindale  this 
year  by  the  Music  Association.  Music  Week  will  run  from  March 
11th  to  17th,  exposing  Erindalians  to  a  variety  of  musical  styles. 

TTie  week  kicks  off  with  a  concert  by  Liverpool  on  Saturday, 
the  nth.  On  Monday,  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  noon-hour 
concerts  will  be  held  featuring:  an  as-yet-unnamed  folksinger, 
the  Van  Dyke  Band,  and  the  Crawling  Thunder  Review.  John 
Allen  Cameron  will  be  playing  in  the  Blind  Duck  Wednesday 
evening.  Thursday  brings  the  second  Amateur  Night  of  the  year. 
Cnie  Andrew  Sisters  might  even  make  a  repeat  performance.) 
To  top  off  the  week,  a  good,  old-fashioned  Irish  Pub  will  be  held 
in  the  South  Building  Cafeteria  on  Friday  from  one  to  three  in 
the  afternoon. 


Mowat 
Cracks 
Joke 


ERINDALE  (PAP)  —  Back  on 
the  campaign  trail,  SAC  Vice- 
Presidential  candidate  Rob  Mowat 
suffered  a  setback  last  week  when 
the  top  of  his  head  cracked 
away. 

Sources  close  to  the  Mowat 
administration  said  the  problem 
was  that  the  ECSU  president 
hadn't  smiled  since  the  last 
elections,  back  in  March  '77.  When 
he  tried  to  crack  a  smile,  the  strain 
proved  to  be  too  much. 

"Well,  he  got  the  scowl  off  his 
face  fine,  but  then  he  started  to 
smile,  and  it  jest  kept  spreading 
and  spreading,"  said  eye-witness 
Myra  Peddlecraft.  "Kind  of  like  a 
Cheshire  cat.  Then,  wham!  It  just 
feUoff!" 

The  top  half  of  Mowat's  skull  was 
immediately  retrieved  by  two  aids, 
who  said  that  little  damage 
appeared  to  have  been  done. 
"Nothing  we  can't  fix  up  without  a 
little  crazy  Glue,"  they  concluded. 
Two  coddled  eggs  and  a  flask  of 
Demererra  Rum  were  found  inside 
the  cranium. 

A  similar  incident  had  occurred 
earlier  in  the  year,  when  Vice- 
Principal  Robin  Ross,  endeavoring 
to  stand  up  after  a  particularly 
long  meeting,  had  his  knee-caps 
suddenly  explode. 

COM  100 


March  6,  1978  -  MEDIUM  II  •  Pag*  7 


The  fatal  smUe.  Moments  before  losing  his  head,  ECSU  prexy 
Mowat  bursts  forth  with  a  dazzling  "Hi,  Mom!" 

(Photo  credit:  GordCarlyle) 


For  Specialists  Only 


By  Tom  Hanrahan 

As  a  result  of  a  recent  decision 
made  by  the  Social  Sciences 
Curriculum  Committee  for  Arts 
and  Science,  students  who  want  to 
take  Commerce  100  will  also  be 
required  to  take  Economics  100 
plus  a  100  level  math  course.  In  an 
effort  to  curtail  an  ever-expanding 
enrolment  in  the  commerce 
course,  the  curriculum  committee 
decided  that  this  was  the  most 
equitable  form  of  restriction. 

The  decision  to  place  the  two 
qualifying  courses  with  Commerce 
100  was  accepted  after  the  original 
motion  was  defeated.  The  original 
motion  would  have  required  stu- 
dents who  wished  to  take  Com- 
merce 100  to  have  achieved  eighty 
per  cent  or  better  in  Grade  13  for 
the  downtown  campus  and  seventy 
per  cent  or  better  for  Erindale. 

Professor  L.  Brooks  of  the 
Commerce  Department  at  Erin- 
dale explained  that  the  committee 
felt  the  percentage  requirements 
were  inequitable,  since  a  student 
with  sixty-five  per  cent  in  high 
school  could  work  hard  and 
become  a  very  effective  commerce 
student.  Brooks  explained  that  the 
student  may  have  come  from  a 


Objection! 

Continued  from  page  4 

I  do  not  propose  that  CFRE 
profit  at  the  expense  of  Radio 
Varsity.  Yet  certain  members  of 
the  Communications  Commission 
continue  to  pit  CFRE  against 
Radio  Varsity  as  far  as  funding  is 
concerned.  Thus,  as  manager  of 
CFRE,  I  must  defend  the  station 
within  the  confines  outlined  by 
such  members.  I  beUeve  there  is 
enough  money  about  to  satisfy  all 
concerns.  Further,  our  funding  is 
not  in  the  way  of  a  grant  but, 
rather,  a  loan  and  guaranteed 
advertising.  This  is  one  point  which 
seems  to  have  escaped  your  atten- 


high  school  that  was  more  difficult 
academically,  and  as  a  result  his 
sixty-five  per  cent  could  be 
equivalent  to  a  seventy-two  some- 
where else. 

The  expansion  in  the  number  of 
students  enrolling  in  the  Com- 
merce 100  course,  according  to 
Brooks,  "has  been  truly  dramatic 
during  the  last  year.  The  impact 
has  been  even  greater  downtown, 
where  the  situation  is  quite 
critical." 

Brooks  explained  that  the  num- 
ber of  students  at  Erindale 
increased  from  460  in  1976,  to  672  in 
1977.  He  said  that  "the  university 
can  not  continue  to  see  this 
expansion,  since  the  number  of 
f uU-time  professors  is  not  adequate 
to  serve  the  needs  of  the  students. 
As  enrolment  increased,  the  num- 
ber of  students  who  wanted  to  see 
full-time  professors  also  worsen- 
ed." 

In  an  era  of  financial  restraint, 
one  would  suspect  that  perhaps  the 
further  requirements  were  inten- 
ded to  curtail  costs.  However, 
according  to  Brooks,  the  university 
has  offered  ample  resources  for 
the  hiring  of  additional  staff,  but 


qualified  staff  in  the  commerce 
department  are  just  not  available. 
Brooks  said  that  last  year  there 
were  one  hundred  openings  for 
accounting  teachers  in  Canada,  but 
there  were  only  five  qualified 
applicants.  > 

Brooks  explained  that  he  did  not 
feel  that  they  were  restricting 
anyone  from  taking  Commerce 
100,  and  added  that  they  were 
"certainly  not  attempting  to 
frighten  away  anyone  who  feels  we 
cannot  properly  accommodate 
their  needs.  We  are  simply  hoping 
to  attract  students  who  are 
committed  to  at  least  a  little 
further  study  in  the  area.  Students 
should  perceive  Commerce  100  as  a 
course  which  expects  a  lot,  and 
which  serves  as  an  introduction  for 
people  who  want  a  career  in 
business  or  accounting." 

The  Commerce  Department  at 
Erindale  is  hoping  to  be  able  to 
offer  Commerce  202  next  year. 
This  course,  which  is  offered  on  the 
downtown  campus,  serves  the 
purpose  of  an  introductory  course 
for  those  students  who  only  want  to 
find  out  what  business  and 
accounting  are  all  about. 


tion.  Is  Radio  Varsity  willing  to  be 
funded  on  the  same  basis  as 
CFRE? 

As  to  providing  services  to 
downtown  students,  I  fail  to  see 
why  this  point  was  even  mentione- 
ed.  Erindale  students  are  hopefully 
benefitting  from  CFRE  and  this,  in 
itself,  seems  sufficient  reason  for 
the  funding  of  CFRE.  Secondly,  in 
the  beginning  of  this  school  year,  I 
mentioned  the  idea  of  CFRE 
utilizing  Radio  Varsity  lines  to 
broadcast  downtown  via  bell  lines 
from  Erindale.  This  is  a  distinct 
possibility  should  Radio  Varsity 
fold  once  more  (and  we  are  hoping 


it  does  not)  in  the  eyes  of  CFRE 
management.  This  would,  of 
course,  serve  downtown  students 
as  you  have  suggested  we  should. 
To  close,  I  trust  all  campus 
stations  can  cooperate  with  each 
other  and  that  competition  for 
funds  can  remain  amicable.  CFRE 
hopes  to  arrive  at  some  sort  of 
mutual  agreement  with  Radio 
Erindale  and  Radio  Varsity  to  best 
serve  the  students  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Toronto.  Again,  best  wishes 
for  the  future... 

Sincerely, 

Greg  Tyndall,  Manager 

Radio  Erindale. 


Page  8  •  MEDIUM  II  -  March  6,  1978 


Ryan:  from  integrity  to  the  Liberals 


By  Daniel  Boyer  and 
Arnold  Bennett 

(CUP)  —  During  the  hysteria  of 
October  1970,  McGill  Daily  Asso- 
ciate editor  Tom  Sorell  received  an 
alarming  call  from  a  Montreal 
police  officer.  The  caller  strongly 
objected  to  a  letter  published  in  the 
Daily.  He  claimed  the  letter  was 
"subversive"  because  of  com- 
ments made  about  the  FLQ 
manifesto. 

"We're  seizing  your  press  run," 
Sorell  was  told.  "And  if  you  ever 
print  anything  like  this  again,  we'll 
throw  you  in  jail  and  shut  down 
your  paper." 

But  it  was  not  an  anglophone 
student  newspaper  that  was  the 
main  target  of  this  police  censor- 
ship. Rather  it  was  a  far  more 
influential  newspaper,  coinciden- 
tally  being  printed  at  the  Daily's 
printer  imprimerie  Dumont,  that 
the  police  were  after. 

CRITICISES  ACT 

The  publisher  of  Le  Devoir, 
Claude  Ryan,  and  his  able  team  of 
editorialists  had  been  criticising 
the  War  Measures  Act,  the 
attitudes  of  the  government,  and 
the  related  police  repression  —  and 
the  powers-that-be  were  out  to  get 
them.  At  the  time,  Le  Devoir  was 
the  only  sizeable  newspaper  in 
Canada  that  had  the  guts  and  the 
principles  to  defend  civil  liberties 
against  the  repressive  onslaught 
during  this  period.  Most  liberals 
were  in  a  state  of  quiet  acquies- 
cence to  everything  Trudeau, 
Bourassa  and  Drapeau  were  doing 
in  the  name  of  national  security. 

For  his  pains  Ryan  was  accused 
in  a  story  planted  by  certain 
federal  politicians  in  the  Toronto 
media,  of  conspiring  to  set  up  a 
"provisional  government"  in 
Quebec  to  replace  the  faltering 
Bourassa  regime. 

It  is  a  curious  irony  that  the 
same  Claude  Ryan  is  now  regarded 


as  a  potential  saviour  of  "Canadian 
Unity"  by  many  of  the  same 
slsments  who  believed  the  smears 
against  him  in  1970. 

POLITICAL  IRONIES 

The  last  decade  has  seen  its 
share  of  political  ironies.  Robert 
Stanfield,  former  leader  of  the 
Progressive  Conservative  Party, 
was  wishing  wistfully  two  years 
ago  that  he  had  had  the  courage  to 
vote  against  the  War  Measures 
Act.  There  was  the  whole  inces- 
tuous melting  pot  of  Quebec 
politics  producing,  out  of  struggles 
against  conscription  and  Dup- 
lessis,  such  incompatible  elements 
as  Jean  Drapeau  and  Michel 
Chartrand,  the  latter  having  been 
Drapeau's  campaign  manager  in  a 
by-election  in  1943,  Pierre-Elliot 
Trudeau  and  Pierre  Vallieres,  who 
in  1961  was  Trudeau's  own  ap- 
pointee to  the  editorial  board  of 
Cite  Libre. 

Ryan  was  never  a  "subersive." 
His  politics  have  always  learned  in 
a  conservative  direction  though  he 
always  remained  a  civil  liber- 
tarian and  favored  a  mixed 
economy.  Ryan  was  always  op- 
posed to  deconfessonalising  the 
Quebec  school  system  and  has 
denounced  Quebec's  militant 
teachers  for  trying  to  politicise 
their  students  in  the  classrooms. 
Ryan  implicitly  refutes  that  these 
students  are  already  being  indoc- 
trinated with  the  values  of  the 
dominant  ideology. 

Somewhat  of  an  autocrat  in  his 
personal  style,  Ryan  has  been 
highly  critical  of  the  Quebec  labor 
movement  because  of  his  strong 
belief  in  the  legitimacy  of  the 
courts  and  the  state  as  institutions. 
He  opposed  the  militant  actions  of 
the  Common  Front  of  the  Quebec 
Labor  movement  in  1972,  parti- 
cularly such  tactics  as  the  union 
occupation  of  Sept-Iles  in  protest 
against  the  jailing  of  the  union 


leaders  in  May  of  that  year. 

Ryan,  whose  strong  sense  of  his 
own  infallibility  has  earned  him 
the  soubriquet  of  the  "Pope  of 
Quebec  Politics"  from  both  friends 
and  critics  was  somewhat  taken 
aback  when  he  was  booed  by  the 
workers  of  Sept-Iles  when  he  spoke 
there  later  in  1972. 

CRISIS  OF  CONSCIENCE 

As  a  firm  believer  in  the 
principle  of  "honest  government" 
but  as  an  equaUy  firm  believer  in 
some  form  of  federalism,  Ryan 
suffered  an  obvious  crisis  of 
conscience  in  the  Quebec  elections 
of  1973  and  1976.  In  part  because  of 
his  own  opposition  to  the  Common 


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Front,  Ryan  did  not  find  the 
Liberal  record  in  1973  to  be 
sufficiently  rotten  for  him  to 
withhold  his  editorial  support,  even 
though  he  had  been  criticising  the 
Bourassa  government  regularly 
for  three  years.  Because  of  his 
federalist  option,  he  felt  he  had  no 
choice,  the  Parti  Quebecois  having 
not  yet  clearly  separated  the  issues 
of  forming  a  government  and  of 
independence. 

LE  JOUR  VS.  LE  DEVOIR 

But  the  Bourassa  regime  did  not 
improve  during  its  nert  three 
years  of  office.  While  the  PQ  had 
vituperated  against  Ryan  for  his 
1873  stand  and  had  set  up  Le  Jour 
to  compete  with  Le  Devoir,  it  now 
provided  him  with  an  out.  Since  the 
promise  of  a  referendum  on 
independence  now  made  it  clear 
that  the  election  of  a  PQ  govern- 
ment did  not  imply  the  immediate 
dismemberment  of  Canada,  Ryan 
could  again  in  1976  swim  against 
the  stream  of  all  other  Canadian 
editorialists  as  he  had  1970.  Ryan 
critically  supported  the  PQ,  in 
order  to  defeat  the  Liberals  whose 
continued  presence  in  power  he 
considered  to  be  disasterous. 

In  the  year  following  the  election 
of  the  PQ,  Ryan  maintained  his 
critical  stance  towards  the  govern- 
ment in  power.  The  PQ's  promised 
reforms  in  such  areas  as  housing, 
municipal  democratisation,  health 
care  and  car  insurance  were  slow 
in  coming  and  proved  to  be 
disappointingly  inadequate  when 
they  did  come. 

Tlie  only  area  where  the  new 
government  did  seem  to  move 
strongly  and  decisively  was 
language.  Ryan,  a  long-time  de- 
fender of  minority  rights,  voiced 
certain  objections  particularly  in 
the  case  of  those  provisions  in  Law 
101  covering  education  of  children 
of  immigrants  from  o,.»er  provin- 
ces. Nevertheless,  Ryan  was  in 
agreement  with  most  of  the 
government's  language  policy  as 
were  many  francophone  political 
leaders.  Ryan  stated  that  all 
immigrants  from  outside  of 
Canada  should  go  to  French 
schools  and  that  French,  as  the 
language  of  the  majority  in 
Quebec,  should  be  the  language  of 
work.  His  editorial  critique  centred 
around  applications  of  the  law. 

PERIOD  OF  INDECISION 

The  long  period  of  indecision  by 
Ryan  concerning  whether  he  would 
run   for   the   leadership    of   the 


Quebec  Liberal  Party,  which  he 
had  so  recently  condemned,  is 
indicative  of  his  discomfort.  Ryan 
has  always  been  primarily  an 
independent  journalist,  whose 
credibility  was  based  on  that 
independence.  For  him  to  now 
openly  associate  himself  with  any 
political  party,  as  distinct  from  a 
nonpartisan  option  like  federalism, 
might  give  that  party  political 
mileage  but  might  ^o  substantial- 
ly diminish  Ryan's  own  credibility. 

MAJOR  CHANGES 

Therefore  Ryan  insisted  that 
number  of  major  conditions  be 
approved  by  the  Liberals  prior  to 
his  candidacy.  Some  directly  imply 
that  the  Liberals  have  to  clean  up 
their  act  and  that  the  leadership 
convention,  through  stringent  re- 
form of  party  financing  along 
Pequiste  lines,  be  taken  out  of  the 
hands  of  the  pawnbrokers  and  put 
in  the  hands  of  the  rank  and  file. 
Another  of  Ryan's  conditions,  in  a 
strange  contradiction,  flew  in  the 
face  of  that  very  control  by  the 
rank  and  file. 

This  November,  the  Quebec 
Liberal  policy  convention  had 
adopted  a  right-wing  economic 
policy  favoring  a  return  to  "free 
enterprise"  and  a  reduction  of 
state  intervention  in  the  economic 
sector.  Ryan,  a  believer  in  the 
mixed  economy  whose  closest 
political  associations  had  been 
with  the  NDP,  insisted  that  this 
economic  policy  be  reversed  as  a 
condition  for  his  candidacy. 

The  Liberals  agreed  to  all  of 
Ryan's  conditions,  with  varying 
degrees  of  sincerity.  Those  who 
controlled  the  party  machine  lined 
up  behind  former  finance  minister 
Raymond  Garneau,  Ryan's 
strongest  advantage  in  the  leader- 
ship race  is  that  the  rank  and  file 
may  be  aware  that  Garneau,  with 
his  heritage  of  the  Bourassa 
regime  is  unlikely  to  lead  the  party 
to  victory  against  the  PQ,  whereas 
Ryan  has  a  chance.  Some  of  the 
party's  powerbrokers  would  rather 
take  a  chance  with  Garneau  rather 
than  have  to  fight  with  Ryan  for 
control  of  the  party  in  the  future. 

Even  if  Ryan  wins  the  Liberal 
leadership,  it  is  not  assured  that  he 
will  make  his  reforms  stick.  The 
Liberal  Party's  ties  to  big  corpora- 
tions and  to  attitudes  which  Rayn 
can  never  fully  share  are  too 
deeply  rooted  to  be  overthrown  by 
any  lone  crusader.  Ryan  may  find 
that  the  real  masters  of  the  Liberal 
Party  are  neither  its  official 
leaders  nor  its  membership. 


March  6,  1978  -  MEDIUM  II  •  Pag*  9 


Discrimination  Against  Women  Increasing 
In  Federal  Public  Service 


OTTAWA  (CUP)  —  Fearing 
repercussions  and  possible  retalia- 
tion, an  anonymous  group  of 
female  public  servants  has  issued 
a  report  saying  that  more  women 
are  still  getting  poorer  jobs  and 
most  still  make  less  money  for  the 
same  work  than  their  male 
counterparts. 

The  group  had  David  Mac- 
Donald,  the  Progressive  Conser- 
vative spokesperson  on  the  status 
of  women  present  the  report 
because  they  felt  speaking  out 
could  jeopardize  their  careers. 

MacDonald  sent  copies  of  the 
report,  "Equal  Opportunities  - 
Why  Not,"  to  all  members  of  the 
House  of  Commons  and  Senate 
with  a  special  note  to  the  minister 
responsible  for  the  status  of 
women.  Marc  Lalonde. 

He  told  Lalonde  that  there  are 
"increasing  signs  of  discrimina- 
tion against  women  workers  gener- 
ally and  the  very  obvious  lack  of 
commitment  or  progress  with 
respect  to  the  equal  opportunities 
for  women  in  the  Public  Service  of 
Canada." 

The  report  was  compiled  by  "at 
least  a  couple  of  dozen"  women 
according  to  MacDonald,  and 
states  that  the  percentage  of 
administrative  support  jobs  filled 
by  women  has  increased  steadily 
over  the  past  five  years,  from  68.2 
per  cent  in  1972  to  78.8  per  cent  in 
1976,  "thus  creating  the  biggest  job 
ghetto  in  the  public  service." 

Thirty-three  per  cent  of  federal 
public  service  employees  are 
women  and  86.5  per  cent  of  the 
74,332  employeed  in  1975  earned 
less  than  $10,000;  while  only  35.8 
per  cent  of  the  men  earned  less 
than  $10,000  "and  again,  most  of 
them  closer  to  $10,000  than  $5,000" 


according  to  the  report  issued 
February  16. 

"In  the  Clerical  and  Regulatory 
(CR)  group  where  73.3  per  cent  are 
women,  the  two  highest  levels,  CR 
6  and  7  are  dominated  by  men 
while  at  levels  1  to  5  women 
outnumber  the  men.  In  the  PM  and 
AS  groups,  considered  middle 
managment  women  are  held  back 
while  men  are  promoted." 

In  levels  1  to  5  of  the  CR  group, 
there  are  36,966  women.  In  the 
levels  6  and  7  there  are  only  454 
women. 

Francophone  employees  and 
young  women  are  hit  even  harder 
by  the  employment  practises  and 
there  isn't  one  female  personnel 
director  in  the  entire  public 
service. 

Recruiting  practises,  career 
assignment  (advancement)  pro- 
grams, and  all-male  decision 
makers  have  done  little  to  improve 
the  situation  according  to  the 
report. 

The  three  departments  which 
should  be  most  concerned  about 
the  problems  of  women  workers 
are  in  fact  among  the  worse  ones. 
Manpower  and  Employment  Com- 
mission, Unemployment  Insurance 
Commission  and  the  Department 
of  Labor  all  could  do  a  lot  more 
according  to  the  authors  of  the 
report. 

MacDonald  said  that  he  and 
other  MP's  will  attempt  to  shame 
the  government  into  action  to 
improve  the  situation.  He  said  that 
the  women  who  wrote  the  report 
were  unhappy  with  their  union's 
reaction  to  the  problem  too,  but 
added  that  it  was  "not  a  severe 
criticism." 

He  was  also  concerned  that 
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Employment  Opportunity 

Manager  —  Blind  Duck  Pub 

Erindale  College  Student  Union  seeks  a 

full-time  Manager  of  the  Blind  Duck 
Pub. 
Candidates  must  be  bondable  and 

should  apply  in  writing  directly  to: 

Mr.  Manfred  Wewers, 
Personnel  Department^ 
University  of  Toronto, 
215  Huron  Street, 
Toronto,  Ontario. 


Au  Printemps 

....a  formal.... 

March  31, 1975 

The  Bristol  Place  Hotel 

950  Dixon  Poad 
at 

The  Toronto  International  Airport 


CocKtails   7:00  p.m. 
Dinner       5:00  p.m. 


$20.00 

per  couple 


Dancing  until  1:00  a.m. 
Casli  Bar 


Tickets  available  from:    Tu«do,,  Mor*  6 

EC5U  -  Colmaa  House 
Infodesti  -  Meeting  Place 


Page  10 


MEDIUM  II     March  6,  1978 


medium  II 


We're  having 


a  party 

ByJOHNREIS 

Goodday,  glad  you  could  drop  in 
to  read,  most  of  us  are  dropping  out 
because  we  can't.  Well  if  most  of 
you  were  able  to  convince  your 
parents  that  you  were  coming 
home  for  reading  week,  but  you 
ended  up  on  a  bus  to  Vermont  by 
mistake  then  you  also  no  doubt, 
were  able  to  convince  them  to 
mortgage  the  house  and  raise  some 
money  so  that  you  could  finish  the 
year.  I  myself  faced  the  prospect  of 
either  procuring  a  parental  contri- 
bution towards  paying  off  the  book- 
store or  finishiiig  off  my  year  in 
San  Quentin.  And  unless  you  intend 
to  go  to  law  school  and  could  use 
the  experience  for  your  bar  exams 
a  degree  from  U  of  T  means  so 
much  more. 

What  to  do  with  all  this  hard- 
begged  cash  you  ask,  well  as  part 
of  the  Athletic  department's  on- 
going policy  of  offering  the  finest  in 
entertainment  and  enjoyment, 
there  will  be,  no  not  a  date  with 
Archie,  but  yes  the  finest  Athletic 
Banquet  ever  offered  coming  up  on 
Saturday  March  18  at  the  Holiday 
Inn  West.  Details  are  available  in 
the  ECARA  office  Room  1114,  but 
believe  me  its  location  is  easier  to 
find  and  get  to  than  your  1  o'clock 
class  in  the  crossroads  building 
after  lunch  at  the  pub.  But  why?  .. 
you  must  be  wondering,  should  I  go 
to  the  Athletic  Banquet?  Well,  let 
me  present  the  most  convincing  of 
reasons,  because  quite  possibly 
other  than  a  year  on  probation,  this 
may  be  your  last  opportunity  to  get 
anything  out  of  this  semester. 

Now  first  of  all,  attending  the 
banquet  will  allow  you  to  see  and 
mingle  with  those  individuals  who 
have  been  participating  in  the  mul- 
titudinous array  of  physically  en- 
hancing activities  offered  by  the 
Athletic  Department.  Come  and 
see  the  athlete  who  broke  4  minutes 
(and  3  toes)  for  the  5  minute  walk. 

Hustlers 
Clean  Up 

ERIN  7  PHE  II  2 

By  KAREN  WASH 

Once  again  Erindale's  Women's 
Ice  Hockey  Team  dazzled  spec- 
tators at  Varsity  Arena  last 
■Riursday  morning  and  crushed  the 
Jockettes. 

Erindale  came  out  flying  with 
Darlene  Knibbe  scoring  almost 
right  off  the  face-off.  In  a 
desperate  attempt  to  deny  the  goal, 
the  Phys.  Ed.  goalie  pushed  the 
net  back  against  the  boards  but  it 
didn't  work.  Hustlers  were  on  the 
board. 

The  game  went  at  a  rather  fast 
pace  with  the  Hustiers  dominating 
most  of  the  game  in  the  opposition 
end.  Several  times  Cindy  Isles, 
Erindale's  goalie  had  to  be 
awakened.  The  scoring  ended  with 
Knibbe  scoring  three  goals  and  2 
assists;  Melynda  White,  our  re- 
tired goalie  getting  two  goals; 
Mary  Lou  Borg  picking  up  1  goal 
and  three  assists  along  with  a  very 
obvious  tripping  penalty;  and  the 
ever  faithful  defencemen  Sue  Shier 
and  Karen  Wash  claiming  an  assist 
each. 

Erindale's  next  game  is  against 
the  dreaded  Scarborough  team. 
This  will  be  the  semi-finals,  the 
Hustlers  face  sudden  death.  Good 
luck  girls. 


Or  better  yet,  the  athlete  who 
showed  great  skill  and  strength  by 
successfully  opening  an  orange 
juice  carton  from  the  cafeteria 
without  the  aid  of  dynamite  and, 
within  48  hours. 

There  will  be  all  sorts  of  people 
attending  such  as  the  calm,  cool 
master  of  endurance,  Varthola- 
meau  Hollingsheed  (one  of  the  big 
names  on  campus)  who  stood  in 
line  for  2  hours  to  photocopy  1  page 
and  then  get  a  machine  that  was 
out  of  change  and  paper.  Better 
yet,  learn  how  he's  progressing 
under  electroshock  therapy.  You 
aren't  convinced.  I  can  tell,  you're 
almost  ready  to  start  reading  the 
Varsity  instead. 

You  can  see  the  football  team 
there  (finaUy  somebody  will)  and 
see  if  the  defence  has  really  put  out 
a  contract  on  their  coach  because 
he  hasn't  seen  a  decent  hit  from 
them  all  season.  This  will  be  the 
opportunity  (as  long  as  Anita 
Bryant  doesn't  hear  about  it)  to 
rub  shoulders  with  some  of  the 
brass  of  Erindale,  Paul  Fox  and 
others  will  be  there.  Although  Mr. 
Fox  won't  be  jumping  out  of  a  cake 
this  year  I  understand  members  of 
the  rowing  team  will  be  in 
attendance  and  will  be  coming  out 
of  their  sheU  (pun  intended).  And 
maybe  they  will  confirm  that 
bouys  will  be  bouys. 

Besides  the  people,  there  will  be 
presentation  of  awards,  dancing  to 
the  beat  of  Bond  and  food,  yes 
excellent  food,  come  and  see  if  the 
egg  salad  is  all  it's  cracked  up  to 
be.  Fun  and  more  fun  from  5  pjn. 
to  1  a.m.  all  for  only  $12.50  per 
person  -  a  class  affair  for  the 
students  of  Erindale. 


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The  big  event: 
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March  6,  1978  -  MEDIUM  II  •  Pag*  1 1 


BySTUMEDLOCK 

The  event  was  unprecedented  in 
the  annals  of  Erindale  sport 
history.  It  was  four  hours  of 
nonstop  excitement  which  threat- 
ened to  break  out  into  pande- 
monium frequently  throughout  the 
evening.  What  was  happening? 
What  caused  athletic  director  Bob 
Ryckman  to  say  "Brutal,  just 
brutal."? 

Last  Wednesday  evening, 
ECARA  hosted  its  half  of  the  semi- 
annual Erindale-Scarborough 
challenge  match.  It  started  a  few 
years  a^o  as  a  friendly  evening  of 
competition  between  the  two 
satellite  colleges  in  various  intra- 
mural sports  and  has  now  evolved 
into  a  h-iendly  stand-off  between 
rivals. 

Slated  for  the  evening's  activi- 
ties were  indoor  soccer,  men's  and 
women's  floor  hockey,  women's 
and  men's  basketball,  squash  and 
co-ed  volleyball.  However,  trans- 
portation and  communication  dif- 
ficulties between  the  organizers 
caused  the  soccer  and  volleyball 
matches  to  be  cancelled. 

This  obviously  didn't  take  away 
from  the  spirit  of  the  remaining 
contests  as  the  two  schools  fought 
tooth  and  nail  for  victory  in  every 
game. 

FOUGHT  TRAFFIC 
The  Scarborough  competitors 
found  themselves  fighting  rush 
hour  traffic  all  the  way  to  Erindale 
and  as  a  result  the  first  game, 
women's  floor  hockey,  started  an 
hour  late.  The  game  saw  Scarbor- 
ough College  face  members  of 
Erindale's  rowing  team,  who 
currently  hold  the  intramural  floor 
hockey  title.  Against  such  for- 
midable odds,  it  was  expected  to  be 
no  contest,  but  such  was  not  to  be 
the  case.  Play  was  very  scrambly 
and  congested  for  the  Qrst  ten 
minutes  of  the  game  until  the 
ladies  in  maroon  (Scarborough) 
decided  that  their  bodies  were  best 
put  to  use  in  the  checking  depart- 
ment. 

As  a  result  many  Erindale 
players  found  themselves  rudely 
awakened  by  tactics  which  were 
formerly  exclusive  to  their  male 
counterparts.  This  checking  often 
resulted  in  many  Scarborough 
scoring  chances,  which  eventually 
converted  into  goals. 

Needless  to  say,  Scarborough 
claimed  victory,  but  this  caused  no 
solemness  in  the  homeside's  atti- 
tude as  the  men's  floor  hockey 
game  drew  near.  For  Erindale,  the 
team  was  made  up  of  members  of 
various  intramural  teams  current- 
ly competing  in  Erindale's  eigh- 
teen team  league,  including  mem- 
bers of  the  defending  champion 
K.C.  and  The  Boys,  The  Bushers, 
The  Flaming  A's,  the  Gasowee- 
neeks  and  the  Bangers. 

TEAMS  DEADLOCKED 
The  Scarborough  team,  although 
not  representing  any  organized 
team  or  league,  was  comprised  of 
an  array  of  behemoths  which  could 
have  easily  been  mistaken  for  a 
football  squad.  Nonetheless,  Erin- 
dale with  experience  on  their  side, 
took  the  game  to  the  visitors 
throughout  the  match,  not  giving 
an  inch  anywhere.  Exemplifying 
this  attitude  was  Carlos  Medal  of 
K.C.  who  pestered  the  Scarbroough 
defence  aU  night  long  and  eventu- 
ally cashed  in  on  a  steal  to  give 
Erindale  the  opening  score  of  the 
game. 

MEDLOCKBIT 
Midway  into  the  third  period, 
with  the  score  tied  2-2,  the  Gaso- 
weeneeks'  Mike  Czerwinsky  de- 
cided that  the  deadlock  was  getting 
boring,  and,  having  turned  on  the 
burners,  eluded  two  Scarborough 
checks  and  ripped  a  shot  into  the 
top  comer,  returning  Erindale  to 
the  lead.  The  game  continued  its 


exciting  end-to-end  hitting  and 
shotting  until  the  last  few  minutes 
of  the  game  when  Erindale  ran  into 
penalty  trouble.  Some  obscure  and 
beligerent  player  named  Medlock 
slashed,  bit  and  axed  his  way  into 
four  minutes  of  penalties  with  less 
than  that  left  in  the  game.  End 
result,  a  3-3  tie,  Scarborough 
putting  in  the  equalizer  with  nine 
seconds  remaining  in  the  game. 

The  women's  basketball  was  a 
shortened  affair  which  worked  to 
Erindale's  advantage  (their  only 
one).  Scarborough  fielded  a  well- 
drilled  team  which  included  3 
interfaculty  players,  while  Erin- 
dale's makeshift  unit  probably 
wished  they  had  traded  some  of 
their  high-spirited  enthusiasm  for 
some  playing  experience.  Another 
victory  for  Scarborough. 
FOULS  COSTLY 

The  men's  basketball  game 
featured  Scarborough  vs.  the  intra- 
mural finalist  Ace  Trucking  Co.  It 
was  suspected  but  not  determined 
that  the  Scarborough  squad  had 
some  interfaculty  players  in  this 
game,  too,  but  it  didn't  deter  Ace 
Trucking.  Led  by  guard  Jerry 
Zarycky,  Ace  took  and  lost  the  lead 
numerous  times  throughout  the 
first  half,  ending  in  a  one-point 
Scarborough  lead. 

The  game  continued  into  the 
second  half  with  the  guards  on 
both  teams  tabulating  most  of  the 
points  and  the  defensive  reboun- 
ders  controlling  the  boards.  The 
excitement  of  the  game  worked 
against  Ace,  who  committed  some 
costly  fouls  towards  the  end  of  the 
game,  a  situation  which  became 
the  deciding  factory  in  Scarbor- 
ough's sixiwint  victory. 

Afterwards,  all  participants  re- 
tired to  the  Faculty  Lounge  for 
snacks  by  various  natures.  To  coin 
an  over-used  phrase,  a  good  time 
was  had  by  all. 


The  Gasoweeneeks  and  Hobbits  lead  their  respective  divisions  with  perfect  3-4)-0  records 
after  the  second  week  of  floor  hockey  action. 

Warriors  Smolce  Opposition 


By  BILL  HURLEY 

The  Warriors  picked  up  the 
momentum  they  needed  to  go  into 
the  playoffs,  this  past  week  with 
impressive  back-to-back  wins.  In 
doing  so  they  also  came  out  of  their 
scoring  slump  by  scoring  12  goals 
over  the  two  games. 

It  started  last  Monday  with  a 
game  against  Victory  College. 
Erindale  has  always  been  able  to 
handle  Vic,  and  Monday  proved  no 
different.  Opening  the  scoring  for 
Erindale  was  Peter  Perkovic,  after 
five  minutes  of  play,  with  assists 
going  to  Bob  (Tiger)  Jones  and  Bill 
Gregson.  The  Warriors  again 
tallied  at  the  13 :  05  mark  of  the  first 
period.  This  time  "Tiger"  did  the 
honors  with  "Captain"  Ted  Nesbitt 
picking  up  the  assist. 

The  game  continued  to  get 
rougher  with  the  Warriors  taking 
much  of  the  chippiness  from  a 
frustrated  Vic  squad.  The  second 


period  saw  many  a  near  fight  but 
Erindale  was  aware  of  the  impor- 
tance of  the  game  and  let  Vic  take 
the  penalties.  The  Warriors  put  the 
icing  on  the  cake  with  6:50  left  in 
the  game.  Perkovic  scored  his 
second  of  the  game  with  Rory 
O'Neill. 

Picking  up  the  shutout  for  the 
Warriors  was  old  reliable  Mark 
Sadowski.  Only  one  thing  that  can 
be  said  for  the  Victoria  College 
hockey  team,  "THEY  HAVE  NO 
CLASS". 

The  next  victim  of  the  Warriors 
was  Scarborough  who  were  hum- 
iliated 9-1  by  the  potent  Warrior 
attack. 

Before  ten  minutes  had  gone  by 
in  the  first  period  the  Warriors  had 
taken  a  5-0  lead.  The  first  period 
ended  with  Erindale  leading  6-1. 
Scoring  for  Erindale  in  the  first 
were  Greg  Lee  with  two,  Steve 
Smith,  O'Neill,  Nesbitt,  and  Per- 


kovic getting  single  goals.  Assists 
went  to  Smith  (2),  Gregson  (2), 
Cam  Stuart  (2),  Tiger  (2)  and 
Perkovic  and  O'Neill  with  one 
each. 

Erindale  slowed  down  in  the 
third  and  only  scored  three.  Lee 
collected  two  more  for  a  game  total 
of  four  and  Borcsok  with  one. 
Assists  went  to  Smith,  O'Neill, 
Nesbitt,,  Murray  Barrick  and 
Gregson. 

The  Warriors  will  now  be 
concentrating  on  the  playoffs  but 
as  of  yet  their  opponent  is 
unknown. 

N.B.  Erindale's  record  for  the 
season  was  8-3-4,  won-lost-tie,  with 
all  their  wins  against  first  division 
teams.  The  most  impressive 
record  of  the  year  for  Erindale  was 
the  goals  against  average  of  1.07  in 
15  games.  A  lot  of  credit  has  to  go 
to  our  two  fine  goalies  Ron  (Vito) 
Capone  and  Mark  Sadowski. 


Page  12  -  MEDIUM  II     March"  6,   1978 


WAYLON&  WILUE:  COUNTRY'S  BEST 


Two  of  the  biggest  names  in 
country  music,  Waylon  Jennings 
and  Willie  Nelson,  decided  last 
year  to  combine  their  talents  and 
make  a  record.  The  result  of  this 
endeavor,  Waylon  and  Willie, 
ranks  as  one  of  the  finest  pieces  of 
vinyl  to  emerge  from  any  field  of 
music  in  quite  some  time. 

TTiis  is  an  album  of  love;  either 
between  man  and  woman,  mother 
and  child  or  man  and  booze.  These 
subjects  are  typical  of  all  country 
music  ballads,  yet  on  this  latest 
effort  they  remain  remarkably 
fresh.  This  is  due  to  the  lyrics  and 
manner  of  phrasing  of  Jennings 
and  Nelson,  as  we  are  constantly 
moved  by  injections  of  humor  in 
the  sentimental  songs  and  pathos 
in  what  seem  to  be  optimistic 
numbers.  You  just  don't  know  what 
to  expect  next  as  the  album  flows 
along  because  of  their  unusual 
approach  to  songwriting. 

COUNTRY  DUET 

Jennings'  voice  has  a  very  strong 
timber;  he  seems  to  violently 
punch  out  entire  sentences  in  his 
deep,  rich  tone.  Willie  Nelson  is  far 
more  mellow  and  words  seem  to 
float  from  his  lips  when  he  sings. 
When  they  perform  as  a  duet  they 
can  almost  be  seen  as  a  country 
and  western  Simon  and  Garfunkel. 
Because  of  the  vocal  prowess  of 
these  two,  instrumental  solos  are 
few  and  far  between.  There  are  no 
predominant  fiddles  or  steel  gui- 
tars and  even  on  long  musical 
interludes  like  on  "If  You  Can 
Touch  Her  At  All',  Willie  fills  in  the 
gaps  with  his  hiunming. 

Nelson's  solo  numbers  are  the 
most  captivating  on  the  album 
because  of  his  colorful  lyrics. 
While  Waylon  sings  routinely,  "I 
keep  lookin'  for  a  feeling  that  I  lost 
when  I  lost  you,"  Willie  laments. 

When  you  go  out  to  play  this 
evening. 


Play  with  fireflies  till  they're 

gone. 
Then  rush  to  meet  your  lover. 
And   play   with   real   fire    till 

dawn." 

POWER 

Although  he  is  backed  by  only  a 
single  acoustic  guitar  and  the  odd 
harmonica,  he  doesn't  need  any 
extra  support  as  his  frail  voice 
gains  power  through  his  words.  As 
stated  before  these  are  not  your 
average  batch  of  love  songs  and 
this  is  what  makes  the  album  so 
appealing.  When  Willie  sings 

Take  back  the  weed,  take  back 
cocaine,  baby. 

Take  back  the  pills,  take  back 
the  whiskey  too. 

Don't  need  it  now,  your  love  was 
all  I  was  after, 

I'll  make  it  now,  I  can  get  off  on 
you, 
we  know  he  has  the  same  power  in 
his  lyrics  as  Hoyt  Axton,  without 
quite  as  much  gimmickery  as  that 
performer  incorporates. 

CLASSIC  CUT 

Waylon's  high  point  comes  with 
his  outstanding  version  of  Stevie 
Nicks'  "Gold  Dust  Woman".  One 
realizes  now  that  this  lady's  songs 
would  perhaps  all  be  gems  if  she 
kept  them  away  from  the  great 
leveler  of  good  material,  Fleet- 
wood Mac. 

The  album's  classic  cut,  how- 
ever, is  "In  a  Couple  More  Years", 
a  number  which  focuses  on  an  old 
man-young  girl  relationship.  The 
lines, 

It  ain't  that  I'm  wiser 

It's  just  that  I've  spent  more 
time 

With  my  back  against  the  wall 

And  I've  picked  up  a  couple  more 
years 

On  you,  lady,  that's  all 
are  sung  so  calmly  that  it  would 
seem  that  losing  the  girl  doesn't 


mean  that  much  to  Willie.  When 
you  listen  to  the  rest  of  the  song, 
however,  you  realize  the  effect  the 
rift  has  had  on  him  and  that  he  is 
simply  trying  to  rationalize  the  age 


difference  in  his  own  mind. 

Whether  you  enjoy  country  songs 
or  not,  you  can  appreciate  the  work 
of  these  two  men  on  almost  any 
musical    level.       Rolling    Stone 


associate  editor  Chet  Flippo  sums 
it  up  best  when  he  says,  "The  world 
neeids  a  lot  more  Willie  and  Waylon 
right  now,  and  a  whole  lot  less  of 
that  other  crap." 


Madcats,  Meatloaf,  Guess  Who 


A  Near  Miss,  a  Direct  Hit,  and 
a  Chance  to  Reload 


Madcats 


The  Madcats  (left  to  right)  Glen  Gratto,  Brad  MacDonald,  John  Erdman,  Bobby  Blake  and 
in  the  middle,  The  Sadcat,  Grant  FuUerton.  A  new  band  showing  a  lot  of  potential,  but  badly 
in  need  of  polish. 


Last  Wednesday  evening 
marked  the  debut  of  a  new  Toronto 
bar  band  called  the  Madcats.  The 
leader  of  this  band.  Grant  Fuller- 
ton,  is  a  veteran  in  the  local  music 
scene  having  spent  much  time  in 
the  Stych  in  Tyme  and  later  in 
Fullerton's  Dam.  You  would  think 
with  all  of  this  experience  he  would 
be  able  to  put  on  a  fairly  good  rock 
and  roll  show.  Unfortunately  this  is 
not  the  case,  as  he  was  by  far  the 
weakest  link  in  this  five-man  band. 

Alternate  lead  vocalist  Bobby 
Blake  illustrated  all  of  Fullerton's 
weaknesses  as  his  excellent 
Kansas-like  vocals  seemed  to 
hover  above  the  hard-driving  rock. 
The  first  number,  "Free  Wheeling 
Down  the  Road",  had  the  two  men 
tradijig  vocals;  the  result  being  a 
melody  period  being  alternated 
with  moments  of  complete  flat- 
ness. Although  Blake  almost  saved 
the  song,  the  material  (written  by 
FuUerton  (is  too  weak  to  stave  off 
monotony. 


"Woman's  Got  the  Power  Over 
Me"  is  the  Madcats'  best  song  and 
this  is  due  to  the  fact  that  it  is  a 
complete  copy  of  Boston's  "More 
Than  a  Feeling".  The  guitar  work 
of  Blake  and  keyboard  work  of 
Brad  MacDonald  was  superb 
nevertheless,  and  show  that  with 
good  material  this  band  would  be 
quite  excellent. 

In  "Teenage  Valentino",  Fuller- 
ton  strains  his  voice  to  sound  like 
Randy  Bachman.  His  raunchiness 
does  not  cover  the  weakness  of 
lyrics  like 
His  real  name  is  Valentino, 
But  everyone  calls  him  Joe, 
Works  up  in  the  Big  High  Rise 
On  the  telephone  from  nine  to 

five. 
This  number,  which  was  the 
longest  of  the  evening,  gave  all  the 
band  members  a  chance  to  solo. 
Rullerton's  solos  were  good  only  in 
the  light  of  his  singing  as  his 
playing  was  long  and  boring. 
Although  FuUerton  may  have 
worked  the  hardest,  the  playing  of 
Bobby  Blake,  Brad  MacDonald 
Continaed  on  page  13 


March  6,  1978  -  MEDIUM  II  •  Pag*  13 


Meatloaf  simmers  between  nombers  at  his  recent  set  at  tlie 
El  Mocambo.  His  debut  album,  "Bat  Out  of  Hell"  Is  a 
competent  work  which  indicates  a  bright  future  for  tills 
voluminous  vocalist. 


Continued  from  page  12 
and  Glen  Gratto  was  far  more 
effective.  Madcats  showed  a  lot  of 
potential  and  if  the  one  destructive 
force  in  the  form  of  Grant 
Fullerton  is  removed,  they  will  be 
a  ttand  to  be  reclconed  with. 

Meatloaf 

"Bat  Out  of  HeU"  has  all  of  the 
ingredients  of  a  classic  album.  For 
example,  in  the  title  track  alone, 
you  have  the  extremely  capable 
Todd  Rundgren  playing  guitar, 
singing  background  vocals  and 
producing.  You  have  the  angelic 
choir  of  Ellen  Folen,  Kasim  Sultan, 
and  Rory  Dodd  adding  an  other 
wordly  uplifting  to  the  song,  but  the 
greatest  asset  of  all  is  Meatloaf's 
powerful  singing.  Therefore,  with 
keyboards  being  pounded,  sound 
being  wnmg  out  of  guitars  and 
Meatloaf  cooking  on  vocals,  it  is 
difficult  to  see  why  this  record, 
although  an  excellent  debut,  can- 
not be  considered  a  classic. 

The  answer,  through  the  process 
of  elimation  has  to  be  the 
song-writing  of  Jim  Steinman. 
Narrowing  it  down  even  further,  it 
is  the  music,  not  the  lyrics,  which 
hold  it  back.  The  tunes  threaten  to 
become  entrenched  in  your  mind 
but  always  lose  their  force  Ijefore 
they  are  through.  Steinman  should 


follow  his  ideas  to  their  conclusion, 
but  he  seems  to  feel  that  the 
numbers'  length  calls  for  varia- 
tion, and  we  are  left  with  a  feeling 
of  incompleteness. 

This  explains  why  the  shorter 
numbers  are  the  best  ones  on  the 
album.  "Heaven  Can  Wait"  is 
especially  pretty  as  the  dominant 
piano  and  sparse  string  arrange- 
ment show  what  this  singer-song- 
writer due  can  come  up  with  when 
they  are  at  their  best.  The  other 
song  which  runs  under  five 
minutes,  "All  Revved  Up,  With  No 
Place  To  Go",  is  the  best  uptempo 
number  because  of  some  great 
honky  tonk  piano  and  saxaphone 
work  of  Edgar  Winter. 

Side  two  features  "Paradise  by 
the  Dashboard  Light",  the  song 
that  proves  to  be  the  most 
humorous  cut  on  the  album  for  the 
first  four  minutes.  In  "Paradise" 
we  are  informed  that  the  couple 
involved  are  "gonna  go  all  the  way 
tonight."  Directly  after  this  we 
receive  a  hilarious  baseball  broad- 
cast which  describes  not  only  the 
ball  game  in  the  field  but  the  one  in 
the  car  between  the  two  lovers.  The 
implication  of  scoring  a  nm  when 
combined  with  lines  "He's  gonna 
slide  in  head  first"  and  "This  boy 
f  w  really  fly"  are  obvious  but 
when  you  hear  a  female  voice 
groaning,  "Okay,  oaky,  okay,"  in 
the  background  of  the  broadcast, 
the  effect  is  heightened. 


Discrimination  con't 


Continued  from  page  9 

destructive  myths  about  women  in 
the  job  market  should  be  exposed. 
He  said  that  there  was  clear 
evidence  that  women  were  in  the 
public  service  to  earn  a  living,  and 
not  just  to  earn  extra  "spending 
money.  He  siad  that  it  was  also 
clear  that  maternity  benefits  for 


women  was  no  rip-off. 

The  group  has  asked  the  govern- 
ment to  provide  detailed  infor- 
mation on  the  status  of  women  in 
the  government,  department  by 
department,  and  provide  infor- 
mation on  the  immediate  plans  of 
each  department  to  correct  the 
worsening  situation. 


The  Guess  Who  circa  1972.  Jim  Kale  (far  left)  and  Kurt  Winter  (second  from  right)  are  the 
nucleus  of  the  new  band  which  makes  It  debut  at  the  Concert  Bowl  later  this  month. 


It  is  more  moments  like  this  that 
we  need  and  not  the  stabs  at 
grandeur  Steinman  and  Meatloaf 
make  at  other  times.  They  can  pick 
out  the  shorter  songs  and  inter- 
esting segments  of  the  longer  ones 
on  "Bat  Out  of  Hell"  and  maintain 
them  for  forty  minues,  their  next 
album  will  be  a  sensation. 


Guess  Who 


Jim  Kale,  Don  McCougall  and 
Kurt  Winter  were  three  of  the  five 
members  of  the  Guess  Who  that 
recorded  "Live  at  the  Para- 
mount." Together  with  drummer 
Vance  Masters,  an  old  friend  from 


Winnipeg,  they  will  hit  the  road  as 
the  1978  edition  of  the  Guess  Who. 
One  may  be  inclined  to  say  that 
without  former  keyboardist- 
vocalist  Burton  Cummings,  the 
band  is  destined  to  flop.  This  can  be 
argued  quite  fiercely  when  we 
look  at  the  current  group  mem- 
bers' credits.  Kale  had  a  hand  in 
writing  "American  Woman"; 
Winter  was  the  lone  writer  of  "Bus 
Rider",  "Hand  Me  Down  World" 
and  teamed  up  with  Cummings  for 
a  lot  of  the  band's  other  hits. 
McDougall  not  only  wrote  such 
noted  album  tracks  as  "Saman- 
tha's  Living  Room"  and  "Lost  and 
Found  Town"  but  displayed  a  fine 
voice  as  well.  This  would  seem  to 
indicate  that  he  will  be  handling 
most  of  the  band's  vocal  chores. 


Burton  Cunmiings  has  shown  by 
his  solo  career  just  how  important 
his  singing  and  playing  were  with 
the  original  band.  His  writing 
style,  however,  has  changed  since 
the  group  split  up  and  he  now 
seems  to  favor  establishing  him- 
self as  a  nightclub  type  singer 
rather  than  someone  who  chruns 
out  his  records.  Perhaps  this  new 
band  will  concentrate  more  on 
bringing  back  the  spirit  of  the  old 
Guess  Who  in  their  songs;  their 
track  record  indicates  that  they 
are  quite  capable  of  doing  so. 
Whether  they  do  or  not,  the 
inclusion  of  some  of  their  vintage 
numbers  in  their  Concert  Bowl 
appearance  later  this  month  will 
certainly  be  enough  to  upstage  the 
headlining  Triumph. 


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By 

John  Challis 


Canada  has  suddenly  found  itself  swept  into  the  world  of 
international  intrigue  and  espionage.  We  were  forced  into  it.  Yes, 
when  Gouzenko  told  us  that  the  Civil  Service  was  a  front  for  a 
Soviet  Spy  ring,  we  tolerated  it.  When  the  Russians  started  floating 
around  on  our  icebergs,  we  let  them  go  to  it.  Things  began  to  steam 
up,  though,  when  they  started  putting  spies  in  the  RCMP.  That  was 
dirty  pool.  And  the  crowning  touch  came  when  they  dropped  a 
satellite  in  our  own  Arctic. 

The  effrontery !  To  think  they  could  just  heave  their  refuse  in  our 
backyard  like  that.  Such  activities  could  not  go  without  retaliation. 
Unbeknownst  to  all  but  the  privileged  few,  a  new  department  has 
quietly  been  added  to  the  bureaucratic  Labyrinthe  in  Ottawa.  It's 
directly  across  from  the  Parliament  Buildings,  I  found  out. 

At  first  glance,  it  appears  to  be  just  another  pool-hall,  a  new  one 
set  up  for  Honorable  Members  tired  of  debating  (no  doubt  the 
product  of  a  LotoCanada  grant.  Trapper  Chall  would  surmise).  But 
to  the  observant  eye,  all  is  not  as  it  ^ould  be.  For  one  thing,  there 
are  no  greasy-haired  thirteen  year  olds  cursing  the  paper  off  the 
walls  and  pulling  knives  on  each  other.  For  another,  there  are  two 
Mounties  in  full  decorative  dress,  on  horseback,  guarding  a 
curtained  doorway  in  the  back  of  the  hall.  I  asked  them  what  they 
were  doing  there.  They  gazed  back  at  me  coolly. 

"Just  loitering,"  one  replied,  "so  beat  it,  punk." 

As  I  was  leaving,  I  noticed  another  figure  coming  in  obviously  of 
military  bearing.  The  graying  temples,  determined  set  of  the  jaw 
and  mandatory  scar  above  the  right  eye  were  familiar  features  to 
me.  He  was  none  other  than  Chief  Stonewall  Haggard,  former 
Commissioner  of  the  RCMP,  suddenly  dismissed  under 
questionable  circumstances,  and  nunored  to  have  retired  to  the 
Bahamas.  I  would  catch  him  as  he  came  back  out,  and  see  what  I 
could  get  from  him.  But  he'd  be  a  tough  nut  to  crack. 

Three  hours  later  I  had  his  number.  In  Maggie's  Bar  and  Short 
Order  Restaurant,  I  bought  him  a  grilled  cheese  sandwich  with  a 
Strubb's  dill  on  the  side  and  he  was  like  putty  in  my  hands.  But  even 
putty  can  kill  if  it's  made  of  gelignite.  I  took  my  hand  off  his  knee 
and  waved  to  the  waitress.  She  curled  an  alluring  hare-lip  at  me. 

"Coffee,  gorgeous,  double  black,"  I  ordered.  Haggard  was 
impressed.  "I  like  yer  style,  kid,"  he  said,  "Tough,  real  tough."  I 
shrugged.  He  was  ready  to  talk  and  I  was  ready  for  the  low-down. 
But  not  ready  for  the  story  he  would  tell  me. 

The  pool  hall,  of  course,  was  a  front;  more  than  that,  though,  it 
was  the  centre  for  a  veritable  hot-bed  of  covert  activities.  From 
across  Canada  the  government  has  collected  a  braintrust  of  the 
cleverest  minds  in  Canada  to  combat  the  threatened  evils  of  dirty 
Commie  Bolshie  infiltration.  Morton  Shulman,  Joey  Smallwood,  Ed 
Mirvish,  Farley  Mowat:  those  are  just  a  few  of  the  names  on  a  list 
that  must  by  now  have  the  KGB  shaking  in  its  boots.  And  Stonewall 
Haggard  was  chosen  head  of  this  crack  team.  He  sat  back  proudly 
to  let  me  consider  this. 

He  continued  with  his  story,  which  grew  more  fantastic  as  he 
went  along.  Protection  was  really  a  minor  part  of  the  braintrust,  he 
said,  leaning  forward,  and  knitting  his  brows  together.  Double 
pearl  stitch.  Their  true  purpose  was  offensive.  It  seemed  logical. 
Canada's  record  in  world  politics  was  pretty  offensive. 

Their  master-plan  is  an  uncanny  scheme  they  call  the 
Master -Plan,  a  caper  so  ingenious  and  complex  that  it'll  make  the 
CIA  look  like  a  two-bit  pack  of  private  dicks  from  the  Bronx. 

"The  first  phase  entails  getting  Crombie  out  of  Toronto,"  said 
Haggard,  "We've  already  got  him  bottled  up  somewhere  safe."  But 
what  about  the  stories  in  the  papers?  Isn't  he  supposed  to  be 
running  for  federal  office? 

"Right"  says  Haggard,  "That's  the  beauty  of  it.  We've  got  him  a 
look-alike  robot  doing  that  for  him.  That's  why  we've  got  him 
running  for  federal  office,  they'd  suspect  something  in  Toronto 
where  everybody  knows  him  so  well,  but  even  if  the  robot  breaks 
down,  nobody  in  Ottawa  would  notice." 

Phase  Two  is  the  really  astounding  part.  High  above  the  Arctic 
Circle,  in  Tuktoyaktuk,  is  a  secret  military  base  equipped  with  a 
satellite  launching  pad  disguised  as  a  giant  sling-shot.  David 
Crombie  will  be  loaded  in  a  mock  Telstar  satellite  and  blasted  into 
outer  space.  To  allay  the  suspicions  of  the  locals,  we'll  tell  them  it's 
just  the  Northern  lights." 

The  satellite  will  then  be  directed  to  plunge  into  the  trackless 
wastes  of  the  Ural  mountains  in  the  Soviet  Union.  Says  Haggard, 
"it  worked  with  them,  didn't  it?  We'll  tell  'em,  heck,  it  happens  all 
the  time.  Maybe  we'll  even  pay  for  some  of  the  clean-up.  What  they 
won't  know  is  the  cargo  we  have  on  the  thing." 

Crombie  will  emerge  as  Canada's  secret  weapon,  more  effective 
than  nuclear  holocaust.  With  Brezhnev  getting  on  in  years. 
Haggard  explained,  the  chairmanship  of  the  Central  Committee  is 
set  up  for  grabs.  Heading  straight  for  Red  Square,  Crombie  will 
move  in  as  the  Tiny  Perfect  Proletarian,  and  take  Moscow  by 
storm,  so  baffling  everyone  with  his  cuddly  smirk  and  anonymity  in 
the  face  of  decisions  that,  in  no  time,  he  will  be  running  the  Soviet 
Union. 

"See,  the  Russkies  haven't  any  experience  with  anything  like  a 
Crombie.  They're  all  Machiavellian,  power-crazy,  and  they  show 
it.  They've  never  even  heard  of  anyone  being  power-crazy  and  cute 
at  the  same  time.  They  won't  know  the  first  thing  when  it  comes  to 
dealing  with  him.  They're  helpless!" 

In  a  short  time,  Crombie  will  have  teddy-beared  his  way  into 
power,  and  turn  the  Soviet  machine  into  a  giant  metropolis 
burdened  with  contradictory  building  codes  and  park  regulations 
that  only  apply  on  freeways.  The  Russian  citizenship  will  develop 
schizophrenia.  EventuaUy,  the  Germans  will  move  in  and  buy  up 
all  the  Russian  businesses  and  industries. 

Haggard  sat  back,  licking  the  last  of  the  crumbs  from  his  plate. 
"Teach  them  to  mess  around  with  us,"  he  concluded. 


Ask  Procter  &  Gamble 
what  you  can  do 

with  your  BA  degree! 

You  could  become  the 
advertising  /  marketing  manager 
for  one  of  these  P&G  products! 


Although  only  5  are  shown  here,  Procter  &  Gannble 
makes  more  than  30  well-known,  well-advertised 
consumer  brands. 

For  each  brand,  there  is  a  small 
management  group,  usually  just  3  people, 
totally  responsible  for  planning,  creating 
and  supervising  everything  that  is  done 
to  increase  consumer  acceptance  of 
their  brand. 

The  group  is  headed  by  a  Brand  Manager,  an 
important  level  of  management  in  our  company. 

Right  now,  we're  looking  for  a  tew  highly  qualified 
Spring  graduates  with  the  potential  to  become 
Brand  Managers. 

You  would  start  in  our  Toronto  General  Offices  as  part 
of  a  brand  group  for  a  specific  brand,  perhaps  one 
of  those  shown  here.  To  help  you  learn  quickly,  your 
Brand  Manager  would  give  you  challenging  assignments 
of  increasing  responsibility  in  various  key  marketing 
areas  such  as  package  design,  special  promotions, 
budget  planning  and  analysis,  and  market  research. 

The  emphasis  would  be  on  you,  your  ideas,  your 
ability  to  contribute.  You'll  be  promoted  on  the  basis 
of  merit  alone.  It's  not  uncommon  to  become  a  full 
Brand  Manager  within  3  years. 

Since  you  will  begin  to  manage  from  the  day 
you  join  us,  we're  looking  for  "take  charge"  people 
with  outstanding  records  of  leadership  while  in 
university.  "Superior  academic  achievement", 
■innovative",  "a  record  of  being  able  to  get  things 
done",  and  "good  oral  and  wr  ten  communi- 
cations skills"  are  some  of  the  words  we 
use  to  describe  the  people  we  want. 

If  this  kind  of  work  interests  you,  find  out  more  about 
us  at  your  Placement  Office.  If  you  think 
you  qualify,  please  send  me  your  resume,  including  a 
recap  of  your  achievements  to  date. 

Mr.  R.P.  Chan 

The  Procter  &  Gamble  Company  of  Canada,  Ltd. 

P.O.  Box  355,  Station  "A" 

Toronto,  Ontario 

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March  6,  1978  ■  MEDIUM  II  •  Pag«  IS 


Julius  Schmid 

would  like  to  give  you  some  straight  talk 

about  condoms,  rubbers,  sheaths,  safes, 

Rench  letters,  storkstoppers 


All  of  the  above  are  other  names  for 
prophylactics.  One  of  the  oldest  and  most 
effective  means  of  birth  control  known 
and  the  most  popular  form  used  by  males. 
Apart  from  birth  control,  use  of  the 
prophylactic  is  the  only  method 
officially  recognized 
and  accepted  as  an  aid 
in  the  prevention 
of  transmission  of 
venereal  disease. 


Skin 
Prophylactics. 

Skin  prophylactics 
made  from  the  mem- 
branes of  lambs  were 
introduced  in  England  as  early 
as  the  eighteenth  century  CoUoquially  known 
as  "armour";  used  by  Cassanova,  and  men- 
tioned in  classic  literature  by  Richard  Boswell 
in  his  "London  Journal"  (where  we  read  of  his 
misfortune  from  not  using  one),  they  continue  to 
^       be  used  and  increase  in  popularity 
■^  to  this  very  day. 

Because  they 
are  made  from  natural 
membranes,  "skins" 
are  just  about  the  best 
conductors  of  body 
warmth  money  can 
buy  and  therefore 
their  effect  on  sensation  and  feeling  is  almost 
insignificant 

Rubber  Prophylactics 

The  development  of 
the  latex  rubber 
process  in  the  twentieth 
century  made  it  pos- 
sible to  produce  strong 
rubber  prophylactics 
of  exquisite  thinness, 
with  an  elastic  ring  at 
^^.    the  open  end  to  keep 
the  prophylactic 
from  slipping  off 
the  erect  penis.  Now  these 
latex  rubber  prophylactics 
are  available  in  a  variety 
of  shapes  and 
colours,  either  plain-ended,  or 
tipped  with  a  "teat"  or  "reservoir 
end"  to  receive  and  hold 
ejaculated  semen- 


Lubrication 

And  thanks  to  modem 
chemistry,  several  new  non- 
reactive  lubricants  have  been 
developed  so  that  prophylactics  are  available 
in  either  non-lubricated  or  lubricated  forms. 
The  lubricated  form  is  generally  regarded  as 
providing  improved  sensitivity,  as  is,  inci- , 
dentally,  the  NuFomf  Sensi-Shape.  For  ydur 
added  convenience,  all  prophylactics  are  / 
pre-rolled  and  ready-to-use.  /  /; 

Some  Helpful  Hints 

The  effectiveness  of  a  prophylactic, 
whether  for  birth  control  or  to  help  prevent 
venereal  disease,  is  dependent  in  large 


measure  upon  the  way  in 
which  it  is  used  and  disposed 
of.  Here  are  a  few  simple 
suggestions  that  you  may 
fmd  helpful. 

Packaging 

First  of  all, 
there's  the  matter 
of  packaging. 

Skin  prophylactics  are  now  pack- 
aged premoistened  in  sealed 
aluminum  foil  pouches  to  keep  them 
fresh,  dependable  and  ready  for 
use.  Latex  rubber  prophylactics  are 
usually  packaged  in  sealed 
plasticized  paper  pouches  or 
aluminum  foil. 


All  of  these  prophylactics,  at 
least  those  marketed  by  reputable 
firms,  are  tested  electronically 
and  by  other  methods  to  make 
sure  they  are  free  of  defects. 
Prophylactics  are  handled  very 
carefully  during  the  packaging 
operation  to  make  sure  they  are 
not  damaged  in  any  way. 


Prophylactic  Shapes 


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Storage  and  Handling 

It  is  equally  important  that  you  store  and 
handle  them  carefully  after  you  buy  them, 
if  you  expect  best  results  and  dependability. 
For  example,  don't  cany  them  around  in 
your  wallet  in  your  back  pocket  and  sit  on  them 
from  time  to  time. This  can  damage  them 
and  make  them  worthless.  Next  is  the  matter 
of  opening  the  package.  It's  best  to  tear  the 
paper  or  foil  along  one  edge  so  that  the  simple 
act  of  tearing  doesn't  cause  a  pinhole.  And 
of  course,  one  should  be  particularly  careful  of 
sharp  fingernails  whenever  handling  the 
prophylactic. 


PuttingThem  On 

The  condom,  or  prophylactic,  should  be  put 
on  before  there  is  any  contact  between  the 
penis  and  the  vaginal  area.  This  is  important, 
as  it  is  possible  for  small  amounts  of  semen 
to  escape  from  the  penis  even  before  orgasm. 

Unroll  the  prophylactic  gently  onto  the 
erect  penis,  leaving  about  a  half  of  an  inch  pro- 
jecting beyond  the  tip  of  the  penis  to  receive 
the  male  fluid  (semen).  This  is  more  easily 
judged  with  those  prophylactics  that  have  a 
reservoir  end.  The  space  left  at  the  end  or 
the  reservoir,  should  be  squeezed  while  unroU- 
ing,  so  that  air  is  not  trapped  in  the  closed  end. 

As  mentioned  earlier,  you  may  wish  to 
apply  a  suitable  lubricant  either  to  the  vaginal 
entrance  or  to  the  outside  surface  of  the 
prophylactic,  or  both,  to  make  entry  easier  and 
to  lessen  any  risk  of  the  prophylactic  tearing. 


Tkking  Them  Off 

When  sexual  relations  are 
completed,  withdraw  the  penis  while 
the  erection  is  still  present,  hold- 
ing the  rim  of  the  prophylactic  until 
withdrawal  is  complete,  so  as  to 
stop  any  escape  of  semen  from  the 
prophylactic  as  well  as  to  stop  it 
from  slipping  off.  Remove  the  pro- 
phylactic and,  as  an  added  precaution,  use 
soap  and  water  to  wash  the  hands,  penis  and 
surrounding  area  and  also  the  vaginal  area 
to  help  destroy  any  traces  of  sperm  or  germs. 

And  now  for  a  commercial. 

As  you've  read  this  far  you're  probably 
asking  yourself  who  makes  the  most  popular 
brands  of  prophylactics  in  Canada? 

The  answer  to  that  is  Julius  Schmid.  And 
we'd  like  to  take  this  opportunity  to  introduce 
you  to  six  of  the  best  brands  of  prophylactics 
that  money  can  buy  They're  all  made  by 
Julius  Schmid.  They're  all  electronically  tested 
to  assure  dependability  and  quality.  And  you 
can  only  buy  them  in  drug  stores. 


RAMSES 


'  Regular  (Non-Lubricated) 
&  Sensitol  (Lubricated).  A  tissue  thin  rubber 
sheath  of  amazing  strength.  Smooth  as  silk,  light  as 
gossamer,  almost  imperceptible  in  use.  Rolled, 
ready-to-use. 

I    W  U  H  t  A  "Non-Slip  "  S*ins-distinctly 
different  from  rubber,  these  natural  membranes  from 
the  lamb  are  specially  processed  to  retain  their 
fme  natural  texture,  softness  and  durability.  Lubri- 
cated and  rolled  for  added  convenience. 

on LI Ix  Sensi-Shape  (Lubricated) 
&  Regular  (Non-Lubricated).  The  popular  priced, 
high  quality  reservoir  end  rubber  prophylactic. 
Rolled,  ready-to-use. 

PlUlOllll  Sensi-Shape  (Lubricated) 
&  Sensi-Shape  (Non-Lubricated).  The  "better 
for  both"  new,  scientifically  developed  shape  that 
provides  greater  sensitivity  and  more  feeling  for 
both  partners.  Comes  in  "passionate  pink."  Rolled, 
ready-to-use. 

C^Bwl  III  Gently  ribbed  and  sensi-shaped 
to  provide  "extra  pleasure  for  both  partners." 
Sensitol  Lubricated  for  added  sensitivity.  Also  in 
"passionate  pink."  Rolled,  ready-to-use. 


Fiesta 


Reservoir  end  prophylactics  in  an 
assortment  of  colours.  Sensitol  lubricated  for 
added  sensitivity.  Rolled,  ready-to-use. 


We  wrote  the  book  on  prophylactics. 
If  you  would  like  to  read  it  and  get  some 
free  samples  of  what  we've  been 
talking  about,  fill  in  the  coupon  below  and 
well  send  you  everything  in  "a  genuine 
plain  brown  envelope." 


Name. 


Prov.. 


PC. 


JULIUS  SCHMID 
OFCANADALIMITED 

32  Bermondsey  Road 
Tbronto,  Ontario  M4B 1Z6 


Page  16  -  MEDIUM  II  •  March  6,  1978 


The  LotoECSU  Second 

Chance 

Cmon  you  guys  —  we  all  know  that  everyone  at  Erindale  wants  to 
play  LotoECSU.  So  how  come  so  few  of  you  have  signed  up  to  win? 

There  we  were,  ready  to  close  the  nomination  period  at  4:30  p.m. 
on  Friday,  March  3rd,  and  all  the  entries  we'd  received  could  be  counted 
on  the  fingers  of  one  hand.  Is  that  any  way  to  win  fame  (fleeting  and 
otherwise)  on  the  Erindale  College  Students'  Union  for  1978-79? 

Where  did  we  go  wrong?  Didn't  we  offer  the  chance  to  win  election 

to  all  these  swell  positions: 

President 

Vice-President  (administrative) 

Vice-President  (financial) 

Academic  Directorship  and  four  commission  memberships 

Cultural  Directorship  and  four  commission  memberships 

Liason  Directorship  and  four  commission  memberships 

Social  Activities  Directorship  and  four  commission  memberships 

Of  course  we  did.  So  why  didn't  the  entire  college  sign  up  to  play 

LotoECSU  and  win?  We  don't  know  . . .  but  we're  not  going  to  hold 

it  against  you. 

What  we're  gonna  do  is  this.  We're  extending  the  nomination 
deadline  to  12  noon  on  Wednesday,  8  March  1978.  Thafs  this  Wednesday. 
THIS  WEDNESDAY! 

Nomination  forms,  handy-dandy  instructions  and  lotsa  crossed  fingers 
are  available  at  Your  Favorite  Enclave  of  Radicals,  better  known  as 
ECSU.  We're  in  Colman  Place  on  Residence  Road.   Phone  us  at 
828-5249. 

This  is  your  last  chance  to  play  LotoECSU  this  year.  Anyone  can 

play anyone  can  win.  But  only  if  you  enter.  Sign  up  now  and 

start  practising  your  victory  speech. 
LotoECSU don't  you  iust  love  it.  r 


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